Web Analytics is one of the most important elements of effective blogging. It’s so much more complicated than just looking at how many visits your blog has received today or this month. Google Analytics is the free web analytics platform offered by Google. With it you get instant access to hundreds of different kinds of metrics and information about the visitors to your blog(s). Information that if used correctly, can give you powerful insights .

With Google Analytics being free and available to anyone, we all have powerful data about our websites right at our fingertips at all times. But it’s how we look at and interpret this data that can make or break our online blogging campaigns. Throughout this year I will cover various topics to help you take full advantage of this amazing free analytics tool offered to us all by Google.

4 Things You Probably Didn’t Know GA Could Do

How to access information more easily and how to look at analytics data from a blogging perspective.

1. 8 Google Analytics Reports For Improving SEO

2. Google Analytics Tip: Understanding Your Blog’s Following

3. 5 Custom Google Analytics Reports for Blogs

4. 10 Google Analytics Dashboard Widget Reports for Bloggers

Coming soon = Tracking goals for Bloggers in Google Analytics

Google Analytics Is Simply The Best!

1. 6 Reasons I Prefer Google Analytics Over Omniture

2. Social Analytics for Bloggers Part I

Coming soon = Common misconceptions about Google Analytics -  what paid services WANT you to believe.

There Is Much More Content Coming…

Expect to see many more articles being added to this list each week. This is part of an effort that I am making over the course of the rest of this year. If you have any suggestions and/or requests as to what you would like to learn more about with Google Analytics please leave it in the comment thread below. Cheers!