Ever wonder what people are looking at on your website, or how many people are seeing your special meatloaf reciepe?
Well you need an analytics system to gather this kind of information, most likely your web hosting company provides you with how many users are visiting your website. 1and1.com my webhost provides basic data so I can see how many visitors have found my different websites, but for me this doesn’t really give me the detail of what type of content visitors are looking for.
The solution for me is Google Analytic’s this not a new tool but a must have for anyone wanting to keep uptodate on the performance of thier website. I have used this since early 2006 and it’s very beneficial. Setting up is easy navigate over to Google Analytics sing up and get your javascript code, this gets added to every page on you website and it starts collecting data and the best part is it’s free. Now you may not have the skill set to add this so you can hire any web designer/developer to add this your website for a very low cost, (most likley $50 for most websites out there).
You will be well on your way to seeing all kinds of information such as what pages are popular, where your visitors are from and what keywords on google led them to your website. Here is a small sample report from Calais Events which just recently went online.
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If you want your website to have Google Analytics contact me today and I will help you get it up and running for $50 for most websites out there (if you have thousands of static html pages this might not cover it 
).