By Leonardo Wood

Google Analytics is a handy tool that you can use to help you with your SEO and traffic generation.

Google Analytics is a Free Tool which you can utilize to learn more about your website visitors google.com/analytics. You can use it to find out where your website visitors came from, what they searched for to find you, how long they were on your site, how many pages they visited etc. It is an invaluable tool for helping you test, measure and maximize your SEO and online marketing strategies.

To install it on your website you simply open an Analytics Account and get a code that needs to be inserted into your website. Your website designer will be able to do this for you, it will take them a few minutes, if they are going to charge you for this, start worrying.

You may already get statistics from your website designer or hosting company but with Google Analytics you can go into the Account and have a real good look round for yourself.
Google Analytics will give you charts and graphs which will enable you to easily view the statistics of your website traffic. You can enter different date ranges and compare the results which can be very valuable.

Example: Install analytics and check your visitors for the next 30 days, start optimizing your site and next month you will be able to see the increase in your visitors.

Some methods of SEO techniques or online advertising may be out-performing the others you are doing. With Google Analytics on your site you will be able to see exactly which of your online efforts are achieving the best results. With this kind of information you can then focus on what works best for you as a means of driving visitors to your website. Without a statistics program like Google Analytics you will not be able to confidently pinpoint your best performing traffic sources.
Check out Google Analytics to find out exactly how it can help you with your SEO, traffic generation and website conversion rates.

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Gauging Progress is a tough thing to do for a new blog and one of the hardest things for you to do when a blog is only ten days old.  it is even harder to gauge the progress than it is to attract visitors.  None the less you need to do it, just as much as you need to attract new visitors every day.  Let’s take a look at Meme Connection again.

• Since the blog went online we have dropped our Alexa number 3.2M and that is down from 3.5 on Sunday when I checked it last and down from 7.5M on the first.  i think I may well meet the goal I set of under 1M by the end of the month at this rate if I keep it up.
• Google has been good to us as well.  For the unquoted terms meme and connection the site or sites linking to Meme Connection carry nine of the top ten slots.  For a site that went online fifteen days ago that is pretty impressive even if the terms aren’t well searched, since there are 6.5M search results.
• Google Analytics says my visitors thus far are 55% referring traffic, 34% direct traffic, 8% search traffic, and the rest is made up of other and I have no idea what “other” actually constitutes.  I do know however that a large amount of the total traffic comes from sites looking at my profile.  I also know that a large amount of direct traffic is from twitter, or more precisely from the Twhirl client, which registers as direct rather than referring for some reason.  I have seen this happen on other sites using both Google Analytics and other real time metrics programs.

Things I still need to is spend more time commenting on other blogs and putting the name out there.  I need to find new members willing to create or submit memes.  Lastly I need to keep doing more of what I am doing and researching keywords to use in google that will rank well for Google.

For the record contributors who sign up you get a profile with live links and post links.  i do visit every link and those who put up spam crap can expect to find themselves site banned.