Google Analytics How to: Step 1

Get to know how a website performs in search engine and understand visitor's behavior during visiting web pages. Google provides tools that generate reports on statistics and numbers on a website performance including e-commerce. They are Google AdWords and Analytics. In this topic, I will explain the Analytics first, since we don't need to spend any money to use this Google tool.

These are steps in using Google Analytics:

1. Do you have a website already? If not, make one. Or two.
2. Do you have a Google account? Get your G-Mail email address now.
3. Go to http://www.google.com/analytics/. Login using your G-Mail account.
4. Click the "Add website profile" at bottom left of the page; follow this configuration:





5. Next is to insert the code into the page of your website. If you can't, consult your web programmer.
6. When it' successful, Google Analytics will be able to gather the data within 24 hours. If you want to see it, re-login to the URL above.