Google Traffic Analysis
Lots of us have websites, blogs, wkis etc and wonder
who comes to visit
where do they come from
what do they enjoy most
why do they come
Many of these questions can be answered simply by installing Google Analytics on your webpage.
Then you can analyse to your heart's content.
This Youtube tutorial shows how to install analytics on your Blogger account
About 4 minute 30 secs in gives you the good oil about where to paste the code for Google Analytics in your blog!
Another fabulous analysis tool is the Google Earth tool.
Kids love it, and to be honest we all love it.
We can stalk our visitors on Google Earth.
See it in action on this blog and this blog (check it out on the sidebar)
And if you really want to get geeky, the guys at Feedjit give us all these searches we can do in Google to see how our web space is 'performing'
Try entering the following commands into the Google search box (replace example.com with your website URL).
site:example.com This will show you all the pages Google has indexed on your site.
There are a few variations of this special search:
site:example.com/products This will show you the pages indexed in the subdirectory products
site:blog.example.com This will show you the pages indexed in the subdomain blog.example.com
site:example.com -site:example.com/products (notice the space before the –site) This will show you all the pages indexed in example.com minus the pages indexed in the products subdirectory.
link:example.com This will show you all the sites linking to your site.
Here are some variations of this search:
link:example.com/mypage.html Show sites with links to a specific page on your site
link:example.com/products Show sites with links to a subdirectory on your site
link:blog.example.com Show sites with links to a subdomain on your site
cache:example.com
This will show you the cached version of your page that is seen when someone clicks the Cached link under your site info in a Google search. At the top of this page Google will tell you when it cached this page as well include a link the text only version of this page. Clicking this link will show you the text only version which is how the Google crawler (Googlebot) sees your page.
related:example.com
This will show a list of sites that Google has determined is similar to yours. They use an unknown magic spell to make this decision but do state that the quality of similar sites does not impact your ranking or how your site is indexed.