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Can you add Google Analytics to a Squidoo Lens?
Of course Squidoo Stats provides a lot of useful statistics like where your visitors come from (traffic sources), how many visitors the lens receives, the rank of the lens within Squidoo, the amount of money the lens has made for you or charity and through which link people leave your lens. (clickouts)
Sometimes we want more info. You might for example want to know from which country your visitors are, or the majority of your visitors are male or female or maybe you are really interested in knowing how long they stay on your page.
With these extended statistics you are able to improve your lens and increase traffic. Google Analytics (GA) offers these kind of statistics but unfortunately you can't implement GA on a Squidoo lens. But the good news is that there are other ways to get more detailed tracking on your Squidoo lens.
Why Web analytics?
Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage.The Official WAA Definition of Web Analytics
There are two categories of web analytics; off-site and on-site web analytics.
Off-site web analytics refers to web measurement and analysis irrespective of whether you own or maintain a website. It includes the measurement of a website's potential audience (opportunity), share of voice (visibility), and buzz (comments) that is happening on the Internet as a whole.
On-site web analytics measure a visitor's journey once on your website. This includes its drivers a...
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Google Analytics Alternative for Squidoo
Get extra stats for your Squidoo lens with Clicky Web Analytics
Clicky Web Analytics is simply the best way to monitor, analyze, and react to your blog or web site's traffic in real time.
Since Google Analytics uses JavaScript and Squidoo doesn't allow us to use JavaScript on our lenses I have been looking for a non-Javascript tracking code.
Clicky Web Analytics offers a HTML based tracking code you can use on Squidoo. This image based tracking system isn't nearly as detailed as the JavaScript version but offers more features than the Squidoo Stats.
You can sign up at Clicky Web Analytics for free. Their other product; Clicky Web Statistics starts at less than $2 per month. When you register you will get 21 days of FREE premium service so you can try out every feature.
Didn't know this before but just found out that:
Free and trial accounts are limited to tracking 1 web site. Please upgrade to premium service to add more sites to your account!
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Squidoo provides lensmasters with a great deal of information about people who visit your lenses. This information includes where visitors are coming from, where they go, and what they purchase. This information can be used to increase the traff...
You CAN use Google Analytics on your Blog or Website...
You CAN use Google Analytics on your blog or website. GA has very much to offer. You can compare date ranges, monitor local conversion data, see how often your visitors come back and much more.
This great article on Mashable.com shows 27 features of GA you may not know about (yet).
If you haven't done so already, you can sign up for Google Analytics here. It's free!
When something isn't clear check out the GA help section.
What is Google Analytics?
Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that the product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website statistics service, currently in use at around 40% of the 10,000 most popular websites.BackendBattles - Statistics Backends
GA can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines, display advertising, pay-per-click networks, email marketing and digital collateral such as links within PDF documents.
Integrated with AdWords, users can review online campaigns by track...
Google Analytics Tutorial
Google Analytics Interface Tutorial
http://analytics.google.com A brief overview of how to use the Google Analytics interface. If you are new to Google Analytics or you'd like to pick up a few tips on how to use some of the different features, this video is a good place to start.
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Something else but useful for all lensmasters. Do you use ezinearticles or other article submission directories to increase back links and traffic to your lenses? Maybe you haven't heard of Xomba! yet. But it is another great way to promote your lens and make money on Adsense at the same time!Sign up at Xomba now, it is easy to use compared to many other article directories.
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Did you know you can't add Google Analytics on a Squidoo Lens?
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- allthatiscute allthatiscute Dec 30, 2009 @ 3:52 pm
- Thanks! Just the info I was looking for!
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- RemoveDrmFast RemoveDrmFast Oct 22, 2009 @ 3:20 pm
- Great Information. You have inspired me to make some changes to the way I am marketing my sites.
thanks
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- DrRichard DrRichard Jun 8, 2009 @ 11:40 pm
- This is great - I always wanted some GA-style measurement on my lenses, so I think I'll give this a try. Thanks.
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- mulberry mulberry Apr 30, 2009 @ 7:16 pm
- Nice idea for a lens, and very useful information!
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- Charlie-Pace Charlie-Pace Apr 26, 2009 @ 6:03 am | in reply to spirituality
- Thanks for the constructive feedback. I will try to add GA alternatives so people will be able to track more stats then they can with Squidoo's own stats.
Yes, it is because Squidoo doesn't allow adding JavaScript on lenses and the Google Analytics code is in Javascript.
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