Google Analytics : A step by step tutorial to set up Google Analytics

"Google Analytics" is one of the best products of Google which can track any website's referrals, ads, search engines, email promotions and even offline initiatives. This page provides a short description of the following three things:

1. What is Google Analytics?
2. Who can use Google Analytics?
3. How to setup Google Analytics?
4. How to view Google Analytics reports?
   

What is Google Analytics?

Google Analytics reveals:

• How people found any particular website
• How people surfed it
• How you can intensify visitor experience
• and more ...
  

Furthermore, based on these, anyone can

• Improve website return on investment
• Increase conversions
• In addition, make more money on the web
  

Who can use Google Analytics?

Google Analytics is absolutely free and anyone can use it. However, to get access and use it, you must have one Google account. If you haven't any Google Account, just make it and go to Google Analytics Page to sign up.

How to setup Google Analytics?

Step 1: Go to https://www.google.com/analytics/ and click on "Sigh Up Now" option.

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Step 2: Now give your user name and password. {If you don't have any Google Account then create a Goggle account and then do it.}

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Step 3: Hit "Sign Up" option to signing up Google Analytics.

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Step 4: It's the time to give general information. Put your website's URLl, an account name, time zone country and time zone field and press "Continue". For example, my website is a blog. It's "http://set123.blogspot.com". So, I will do the followings and press continue:

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Step 5: Give your "Contact Information" i.e. your "last name", "first name", "phone number" and "country". After filling all these click "Continue".

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Step 6: Agree terms and conditions by clicking the text box. and click "Create New Account".

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Step 7: Now, copy the tracking code and install the code (i.e. paste) in your website . (Tracking code is an java script code.)

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In this way, anyone can easily set up Google Analytics and can check his or her website or blog strategies.

How to view Google Analytics reports?

It's a very easy process. Just log in to Google Analytics and click "View Report".

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Now you will see the report of your desired site with Google Analytics.

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Note:

After installing the tracking code, you have to wait maximum 24 hours to see the result. To check your website statistic just log in your Google Analytics account and then select the targeted website's report and you will see the report.

For more information, visit Google Analytics help page.

Hope, you will be able to use Google Analytics and improve your site strategies.

Google Search Box

"Google", a very popular term to everybody. Most people use Google basically for search. People type "www.google.com" in the browser and hit "Enter" key. Later, put some word or words and search through Google. Can Google only do this? Is the search can do a better way? Many people don't know the answer. Actually, Google is not only a search engine for words only but also a secret machine. By using Google, you can search your local time or any city's time, you can find weather information, you can find any book, you can check any word's synonym etc. Moreover, when you are doing search, you can do more effective search by using search in a different way and can get effective results.

In this page, some important and useful things are discussed very shortly. You can make a printout of the tables and can use it for your daily use and can get the best search result.

Google Search Box

[A] Basic search through Google Search:

At first, some basic search techniques are given. Most people use these techniques. Now, look the table below:

Search term(s)	Search Results
university	pages containing the word "university"
university alberta	pages containing the words "university" and "alberta "
alberta or michigan	pages containing words either "alberta " or "michigan"
"university of alberta"	pages containing the exact phrase "university of alberta"
alberta -students	pages containing the word "alberta" but not "students"
alberta students +1st semester	pages containing the words "alberta students" with "1st semester"
define:sensor	finds the definition of the word "sensor" form the web
pen * pencil	searches the words "pen" and "pencil" which are separated by 0,1 or more words

For more details, please click here to go to the Google's help site.

[B] Google Search with some features:

You can search any city's weather information or time or any book's information or the synonym of any word or you can check any word's spelling etc. Look the following examples (please replace the words between "[" and "]"):

Search for	Format	Example
weather	weather [name of the city/country]	weather London
time	time [name of the city/country]	time London
book	[name of the book]	Harry Porter
synonym	~ [search term(s)]	~first food
package tracking	[pakage no]	10047050065F

For more details, click here to go Google's help site.

[C] Use Google Search to convert unit or currency:

Through Google you can convert form one unit to another unit. Moreover, you can easily convert one currency to another currency. You don't need to calculate anything or don't need to the value of any currency. A quick chart to do this is given below:

Conversion type	Format	Example
unit conversion	[your format] in [desired format]	5 feet 10 inches in cm (Result:177.8 cm)
currency conversion	[your currency] in [desired currency]	100 Euro in USD (Result:100 Euros = 138.55 U.S. dolllars)

[D] Use Google Search with advanced operators:

You can narrow and specify your search. For example, you need admission information only form www.ualberta.ca site. For this type of cases, you can use the following operators to search:

Operators	Meaning	Example
site	search form only the mentioned site	admission site:www.ualberta.ca
cache	search form the cached documents	cache:www.ualberta.ca
link	search from the linked page	link:www.ualberta.ca
related	search form the related pages	related:www.ualberta.ca
info	shows the information of the mentioned page	info:www.ualberta.ca
#...#	search within the given no of range	Computer $100...$2000

For more details, click here to go Google's help site.

[D] Use Google Search as a calculator:

You can use Google Search box as a calculator. Just type the math in the search box and hit enter. Then, you can easily get the anser. Addition, substraction, multiplication, division etc. can easily done through this search box. One table is given below to use Google Search Box as a calculator:

Operators	Meaning	Example
+	do addition	80 + 20
-	do substraction	80 - 20
*	do multiplication	80 * 20
/	do division	80 / 20
^	raise to the power	2 ^ 3
% of	do percentage of	80% of 95
sqr	do square root	sqrt 9

These are the very useful techniques to use Google Search box. Use them to do the best search and save your time.