It also explains and why you need to do this as soon as possible if you want to compare your blog's performance vs the same time last year.
Showing posts with label Statistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Statistics. Show all posts
Monday, July 25, 2022
How to set-up and use Google Analytics 4 in a blog made with Blogger
Labels:
Analytics,
Articles,
Statistics
This article is about updating Google Analytics tags in Blogger, to collect data for Google Analytics 4.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Setting up Google Analytics for a 2nd or later blog
This article is about how to set up Google Anaytics to work on subsequent Blogger sites, if you have already set it up for your first blog or website.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Dealing with the "Keyword not provided" problem in your statistics
This article explains why the proportion of "keyword not provided" visits to most websites is increasing, and gives you options for finding out what keywords people are searching for when they reach your blog.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Setting up Google Analytics so it gets AdSense data from more than one blog or website
Labels:
Adsense,
Analytics,
Statistics,
ZZ - needs 2020 editor review
This article is about setting up Google Analytics on your blog in a way that includes data for AdSense clicks and behaviour.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Country-specific Blogspot URL may affect your earnings - and other things too
This week, Blogger announced they are redirecting blogspot.com blogs to country specific URLs.
This means that when someone in India looks at http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/, they will actually be directed to http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.in - and similarly for other countries, so far I know it's been applied to Australia and New Zealand too.
This is likely to have affects on other products:
AdSense:
If you have protected your AdSense ID from malicious use (and really, you should if you care about it), then you will find some new entries in your unauthorised sites list: I just went into mine and authorised
This means that when someone in India looks at http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/, they will actually be directed to http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.in - and similarly for other countries, so far I know it's been applied to Australia and New Zealand too.
This is likely to have affects on other products:
AdSense:
If you have protected your AdSense ID from malicious use (and really, you should if you care about it), then you will find some new entries in your unauthorised sites list: I just went into mine and authorised
- blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com.au
- blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.in
- blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.co.nz
If I didn't do this, then any advertising "clicks" from people visiting via country-specific-URLs won't be counted.
(Interestingly, I tried using the authorise link beside the unauthorized links on the Home > Account settings page. It said it worked, but those sites weren't actually added to my authorized list. I had to add them to the Authorized list and click Save myself.)
Analytics:
I'm not sure yet if this has an impact on statistics gathered with Analytics. Maybe not - my overall visitor numbers aren't down, and the Visitors > Map overlay tool shows that I've had 79 visits from India today.
I do have some more checks in mind, but these will take a while to do - comments from anyone who has investigated are very welcome.
3rd party statistics packages:
I don't know for sure, but would be surprised if this doesn't affect the stats gathered by SiteMeter, StatCounter, et al - at least in the short term.
Search
Nitecruzr has explained how Blogger's use of a canonical statement makes sure that the search engines only index our blogs under one address.
The way to check that you've got a canonical statement in your template is to
- View the blog itself (ie not the template, and not the posts)
- eg I looked at www.blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com in my browser, while I was logged off of Blogger. - Look at the source code (in Chrome, I get to it through the "wrench" in the top right corner, then Tools > View Source - or by using Ctrl / u)
- Check that this line is showing somewhere:
<link href='http://yourURL.blogspot.com' rel='canonical'/>
If that line isn't in your source code, then the quickest fix is to either change to a newer template, or edit your template and add it just underneath the <head> statement.
That's all I can think of for now ... but I have a hunch there's more. Will post again if I find more issues.
Monday, December 19, 2011
How long does it take your average blog-page to load?
If you use Google Analytics on your blog, then you can get data about how fast your pages(*) load. This is seen in the the Site Speed report which was turned on for all users in mid November
Analytics have now published more information about what it contains, too.
Blogger users can't control some of the items that are shown (redirection time, domain lookup time, server connection time, server response time) - although you may like to keep an eye on them if you are concerned about whether the Blogger platform is suitable your blog/website.
But we do have a lot of control over page(*) download time. This is impacted by the size of our posts (especially the picutres and videos), and by the widgets that we use.
How much difference page-load speed makes to you and your visitors (how many pages they view, and how likely they are to come back) depends on your niche and how impatient they are.
As with lots of web-statistics, there are no hard-and-fast rules. I recommend keeping an eye out for change.
(*) These "pages" are not the same as so-called "pages" in Blogger: read more about the difference. LINK
Analytics have now published more information about what it contains, too.
Blogger users can't control some of the items that are shown (redirection time, domain lookup time, server connection time, server response time) - although you may like to keep an eye on them if you are concerned about whether the Blogger platform is suitable your blog/website.
But we do have a lot of control over page(*) download time. This is impacted by the size of our posts (especially the picutres and videos), and by the widgets that we use.
How much difference page-load speed makes to you and your visitors (how many pages they view, and how likely they are to come back) depends on your niche and how impatient they are.
As with lots of web-statistics, there are no hard-and-fast rules. I recommend keeping an eye out for change.
- For example, if adding a widget adds one second to your average load time, but there is no change to visitor numbers or pages per visit, you probably don't have an issue.
- But if it adds 0.5 seconds and pages/visitor decreases by 50%, you might need to think about whether the widget is worth it, or whether you need to do something like only display it on the home page.
(*) These "pages" are not the same as so-called "pages" in Blogger: read more about the difference. LINK
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Changing the tracking ID for an Amazon Associates widget
You can change the tracking ID for an Amazon associates widget, even after the widget is created and in use on your site.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
"Old" Analytics interface will end in January 2012.
The "old" Google Analytics interface is going to be "sunset" in January 2012. fyi, "sunset" usually means "turned off".
(These days, I use a netbook quite often, so I really hope they have the problems with small screen sizes not displaying properly sorted out by then.)
(These days, I use a netbook quite often, so I really hope they have the problems with small screen sizes not displaying properly sorted out by then.)
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Timezones at a glance: what's the time in your readers' country?
This article describes why timezone matters for bloggers, and has a picture comparing the time in the major areas of the world throughout the day.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Setting up Google Analytics for your blog
This article shows how to add Google Analytics to your blog.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Using Google Analytics to get statistics about AdSense performance on your blog
This article is about how to set up your blog so it collects data about your AdSense performance, using Google Analytics.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Encourage new subscribers by enabling Feedburner's FeedCount button
This article is about how to add the FeedCount icon, which shows viewers how many subscribers your FeedBurner feed has, and lets them subscribe themselves. The information is targeted at Blogger users, but most of it applies to anyone who uses Feedburner.
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