Free Statistics Tracking for your web site – from Google!
Google just launched the free version of their statistics program to track the visitors to your web site. The software is called Google Analytics and is available right now!
All you have to do is signup for the program. If you already have an AdWords account, use that to signup as Google will allow you to do some advanced tracking of how well your AdWords is peforming. You can track conversions of clicks on your AdWords to see if the visitors are actually buying anything.
Urchin was a private web statistics company that sold a $500 web statistics package. Then Google bought them. Now Google has taken that technology and turned it into Google Analytics.
All you have to do is signup using one of your Google accounts or register for a new Google account. I recommend using the same account as on your AdWords. Then you setup a profile for each of your web sites. for each web site they give you a specific Javascript code to insert into the header of your web pages. If you are a blogger like me it is just a matter of inserting that javascript into the header.php of your wordpress template.
Simple to do and damn good stats too!
- Ben Fitts
