{"id":226,"date":"2008-05-05T08:31:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T16:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2008-05-05T08:31:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T16:31:56","slug":"why-didnt-anyone-tell-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/226","title":{"rendered":"Why didn’t anyone tell me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I discovered the magic of Google Analytics<\/a> over the weekend. I had heard of it many times, but never got around to setting it up. Phssh, a click or two and a small piece of javascript to add to your site and you start getting some really nice site tracking. It’s generally intended to be used for determining advertising rates, but I just like the idea of know who is visiting my site and what they’re looking at.<\/p>\n

The coolest feature is an overlay display which they’ll show \u00a0your site and put the percentage of click-through\u00a0for each link. With that you can get a good idea of what is getting people’s attention.<\/p>\n

I’m using the Google Analytics for WordPress<\/a> plugin by Joost de Valk which automatically takes care of things for a WordPress blog. I’ve added it to all the sites<\/a> I<\/a> administer<\/a> (including this one, of course).<\/p>\n

For those of you that knew about it but didn’t suggest it to me,\u00a0harrumph. I could have had so much data by now and you know it’s all about the metadata<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I discovered the magic of Google Analytics over the weekend. I had heard of it many times, but never got around to setting it up. Phssh, a click or two and a small piece of javascript to add to your … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","category-tweaks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t