*This guest tip was provided by Dee Barizo from Celebrific*
Once you've been running a site for a while, your analytics stats become a great source of information for improving your search optimization. One simple way to leverage your stats is to figure out which pages or posts are attracting the most search traffic.
For this tip, you'll need Google Analytics.
First, go to Content and then click on Top Landing Pages.
*The guest tip was provided by Gaurav Sharma*
Google Analytics classifies traffic from Google Images as referral traffic. Websites which get a lot of traffic from Google Images are not able to analyze the keywords they get the traffic from. There is a way to force GA to treat Google Images as a search engine. Below is how GA code will look like:
Sometimes the most genius ideas are just at your finger tips. You just need to go ahead and take them. For example, don't waste hours of your precious time wrecking your head over new post ideas. When you are stuck, look for inspiration within already published content.
Google Analytics is the perfect tool for that:
Go to your "Top Content" section:
Click on each link and then go to "Entrance Keywords": now you've got the whole list of...
The following tip was contributed by Chelsea Blacker.
Google Analytics accounts for all visitors to a site, and it’s important to catch accurate data by excluding visitors who don’t count. Visitors who “don’t count” may include:
marketers & developers working on the site
visitors who work at the company/organization the website is promoting
First, look up your IP address using an IP lookup tool. http://ip-lookup.net/
Next, access analytics and click on...