Tracking and monitoring your new website

It just occurred to me that while it is great that I'm getting new pageviews, and going down the road to getting new visitors, but I have to admit that Blogger's "Stats" section is pretty weak.  If I'm really going to analyze my traffic, Google Analytics is really the only way to go -- instead of getting very thin metrics, without even knowing what the search keywords that were used to find the site or exact referring pages, I'll get all of that info and then some.

To do this for Blogger, the steps to get started are very simple:

1. Sign up for a Google Analytics account.  (Duh!)
2. In the Blogger control panel, go to Settings<Other and then add your GA Web ID.
3. Click the Save button.

That's it!  You should immediately start seeing that data flow in in real-time.  I should mention though that for Analytics, you don't usually see most of your metrics until the next day at earliest.  Up to 139 pageviews for today so far, which is better than yesterday -- going to try and promote and SEO this site some more and get one more revenue source for today before I'm finished. One million dollars, here we come!  I'll know I'm on to something once I've made my first dollar -- that is where the rubber meets the road.  For now I'm going to simply try and fix all the little quirks that I'm seeing in this blog -- I'm going to turn the "About" section into a "Metrics" section so that you can follow my progress in terms of both eyeballs and money.  If you have any questions, comment and I'll be sure to respond!  All feedback good and bad welcome.  If you prefer to send me a private email, the.painted.llama@gmail.com is your best bet.

-Fred