Yes, this post is late. I actually have a few opuses (opi?) simmering on the backburner, but after taking a week off to travel to my niece’s wedding, playing the obligatory catch-up game for the last few days AND trying to get some work done on my website overhaul, I just haven’t had time to do them justice.
However, if you were expecting a “just because” post, you’re only partially right. Thanks to the success of the last plug-in review I did, I’ll give you another here: the Google Analyticator by CaveMonkey50.com for WordPress.
I used to find it frustrating that there would be huge blank spots in my Analytics because I simply did not know how people on my website were interacting with my blog. On the other side of the coin (almost literally), I used WordPress.com Stats to track blog hits, etc. but this didn’t tell much about what happened once they ventured out of the blog area.
Now I have data from all parts of my website so that I can see what links are being clicked on within the blog, and where they go to within the main part of the site.
The upshot: this is a no-hassle way of adding your Google Analytics code to each of your posts automatically. (And if you don’t know about Google Analytics, check it out!)
More good stuff coming next week…
~Graham
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Jamie Simmerman (6 comments.) says:
Love the picture Graham! Glad you made it back, too. I’m off to check these two out. I have the same problem with my stats, as do many others I would suspect. Thanks.
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Jamie Simmerman (6 comments.) says:
Hate to double post, but did you remove the old Analytics code before installing this one?
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Graham Strong says:
Hey Jamie,
Double-commenting is fine!
I’m not sure if I understand the question… WordPress does not have an Analytics code to start with (correct me if I’m wrong). I used the same code as the rest of the Strong White Papers website so that the stats are consistent. I suppose you could use a different code, but that would defeat the purpose. You want one code tracking your whole site; otherwise, you’ll have the same problem of trying to compare stats between one code and the other.
Does that answer your question? As I say, I’m not sure exactly what you meant, so feel free to re-comment or email me directly for more details about how I did it.
~Graham
Cath Lawson (19 comments.) says:
Hi Graham it sounds like another fab tool. Did you have a good time at the wedding? Where was it?
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Graham Strong says:
Hi Cath,
Thanks — had a great time! The kids stayed up until the end as well, except our three-year old who crashed on some chairs. Hey, haven’t we all done that at a wedding at least once…?
The wedding was at a place called the Copetown Golf and Country Club. Copetown is one of those little townships filled mostly with farms to the west of Hamilton, Ontario. Actually, like many towns surrounding Hamilton, I believe it has now officially become part of Hamilton, much to the chagrin of everyone in those towns, and much to the disinterest of those in Hamilton proper. (Although some much think it’s cool that Hamilton has 500,000 people now instead of a measly 350,000…
~Graham
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