Google Analytics is an amazing product of Google which can be used to analysis the web traffic of a web site with large set of comprehensive tools and techniques. Google Analytics is product available free and unrestricted for all users. Web masters can get elaborate the information about the web traffic of their web site without having much technical knowledge with this tool. Furthermore it produces the professional report which can be export in various formats including XML and PDF. The information collected through Google Analytics will be important to make strategic decision for you web site and its future development. This article explain about, efficient ways of using an Google Analytics.
To find out the page which is getting more traffic, and optimize such pages in your site. If you are running for advertisement in your web pages, then make sure they are properly placed and updated. If you are relating to affiliate products, make sure your links are updated and that you aren’t missing any links or new products which should be there. If you are using that page for some other intention, such as to generate subscriptions or whatever the case may be, make sure that the page is laid out as well as possible. This will be very useful if you have a website which has a long “to do” with list and many things to been optimize.
Find out which referrers who are producing more traffic, and continue to generate traffic from those referrers. For example, if you think that Twitter is generating a large amount of targeted traffic, you can increase your activity on Twitter. If you note that your article submissions are grabbing new visitors from article directories, you can take a note not to drop those out, or possibly increase them. Find out which keywords you are ranking the best for, and see which ones you can “push to the top. First focus on the keywords since it provide a best chance of ranking high in the near future, and then move on to the others.
Find out which pages keep your visitors the longest. If the average visitor on first page may stays for 5 seconds, while the average visitor to second page may stays for 150 seconds, the likelihood is that your visitors find second page’s content more interesting than first page’s. Look at the graph of your bounce rate. This will give the information of how many people left your site without visiting a second page. Based on the website and the page, this may be a good or bad thing. But if you have a blog or a content site, it is actually a good practice when people stick around to view more of your posts and content before they leave. If your bounce rate increased or decreased after you made some changes, you can opt to revert that change or keep it.
There are many other ways to use Google Analytics. But the points which are stated here are a few great ways to start, when you aren’t familiar with or used to using this tracking system. This tool will give you a far greater realizing of what’s happening on your site and can guide you to continue on successful actions and drop the unsuccessful.
