Tracking will give you the following info and more
- Where your visitors come from.
- Which sites refer the most people to your blog?
- What your most popular posts are.
- What search engines your users are using.
- What keywords they search to find your site. Use this information to focus new content on those keywords. If you can “own” a word or phrase in Google you win.
- What part of the country they are from. You might be surprised how many international readers you have.
- What browsers they use. Make sure your blog looks good on those browsers. Not everyone uses Internet Explorer.
- What pages they visit and in what order. Do people just visit one page and bounce away or do they go from page to page?
- What pages have the lowest bounce rate. Bounce rate is the percentage of people who leave your website after visiting that page.
More Ideas
- Get a weekly report
- Check your tracking after launching a marketing campaign to analyze the campaign effectiveness.
- Don’t use a visible visitor counter.
Popular Tracking Programs
All the bells and whistles. Steeper learning curve but there are lots of reference materials and YouTube videos.
Statcounter
Really simple and basic – weekly report