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The simplest way I have found to install Google Analytics in the blog is to use, suprise, surprise, a wordpress plugin:

http://www.joostdevalk.nl/wordpress/google-analytics/

All you need to do is enter your analytics code (which you get when you sign up for Google Analytics) and you’re set to go.

What I like about this particular plugin is that

1. of course it adds the tracking code to each page, so you quickly see what traffic each page is getting, but also
2. segments the outgoing clicks, so you can tell whether the click came from an article or a comment.
3. gives you the option of tracking entire domains, rather than individual URLs — so e.g. if you are sending lots of traffic to different URLs on the same domain (affiliate marketing comes to mind;-), then you might not be interested too much in which particular page it went to…
4. collects all your adsense into one directory.

lovely stuff  — the question now is how to monetize that information, i.e. now that we know that there is lots of traffic, how do we use that information to alter pages, layout, design and content to drive more traffic to our blog.

So, right now I’d love to hear from a Google Analytics expert — any thoughts on this, how best to use this to drive traffic to your blog, how best to oursource Google analytics. If you prefer, we could do a quick interview over the phone and post the interview up here!

Veit

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  These are the documents we are going to use as a starting point for this experiment. Have a look at the Welcome! post if you don't know what this is all about.
  • How To Hyper-Effectively Leverage the Power of Video, Blogs and Social Media - One of the blueprints we’ll be working through
  • How to Quickly and Easily create Your very own highly profitable info product - this will be future work, but if you are interested, check it out anyway.
  • How to use social bookmarking to dominate the search engines - One of the blueprints we’ll be working through
  • The target blog - this is what we’re aiming to rank on the front page of Google within a week