Google Analytics

If you blog and you want to know who is reading it, you MUST get into Google Analytics if you can. It is free, and gives you a mind boggling wealth of information. The screen capture below is just a fraction of the information available to you:

analytics shot

You'll need to be able to put a bit of code onto your page to get all this goodness.

By the way, I have 99 gmail invites if anyone wants a gmail account to use for google analytics.

Comments

  1. Ollie Bray26 September 2006 at 19:03

    Hi Robert, I would love a Gmail invite. Ollie

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  2. David Gilmour26 September 2006 at 20:29

    This is another thing that's on the Exc-el plans.. I'm all registered with my chunk of code all ready to go - but site migration & blogs are further up the list!

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  3. jonesieboy26 September 2006 at 21:50

    I just sent it Ollie :)

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  4. John Connell27 September 2006 at 12:30

    Me too, Robert, if you have any to spare?

    Cheers,

    John

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