Google Analytics: The Graphs Of Your Success

Google Analytics is a versatile tool for gathering useful data and increasing the return on investment (ROI). In this first post for Google Analytics, I will cover the most basic feature and elaborate on the advanced features later.

How to Start Tracking Your Website / Blog With Google Analytics
Visit Google Analytics and sign in with your Google Account. You will get two different codes. Copy the code and follow the instruction for its placement. Once You are done, it will take some time for the tracking to start.

The Dashboard
You can watch the results by selecting the date slider, and the days, week and months view to get the required information.


Below this report you find other useful categories like Site Usage, Map Overlay, Traffic Source and Content Overlay.




Export And Email
You can easily save your reports in .pdf and xml format by clicking on the export button, above the dashboard. Along with this Google Analytics also provides you with the facility to email these reports immediately in PDF and XML format. If you want to repeat this event you can schedule automatic report delivery in your mail box daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly. Emailing has two more formats, CSV and TSV along with PDF and XML.

See Whats New In Analytics - Google Local Business Centre Dashboard
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Google Analytics : Google Local Business Centre Dashboard To Rule The Area You Live in

Google Analytics has come up with a new tool to rule the local market. This nifty little addition give you complete insight of the local market, accompanied with detailed metrics on traffic to local listings on Google Maps. It tracks the number of times your listing appears in Google search for local area market and products.

Pinning Hopes
Google analytics already listed the cities, and with Google Local Business Centre Dashboard it give you the information about the pin codes the visitors came from.

Bread and Butter from Pizza and Pasta
Earn you bread and butter with pizza and pasta search from you local area. Track the customers, assimilate the date for its greatest consumption, beef up your delivery in that area and enjoy.

Google Analytics Blog: Web Analytics Tips & Tricks: Announcing the new Google Local Business Center Dashboard