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Today will be about sub-tabs in the 'Administration' tab -> 'Tracking information'. Below a little more about GA and a few useful tabs in GA that will allow you to monitor statistics in Google Analytics and the growing stats of your website.
Tracking code
The tracking code is your unique code, which if you have a blogger enter in the tab 'Other' -> Google Analytics Identifier of the web property Analytics. Thanks to this your blog will be configured with Google Analytics and will start collecting statistics. I do not recommend using blogger statistics, let alone sending them to advertisers (why you should not send blogger statistics to companies that want to work with you, I have already written in this post).
The 'Tracking code' tab also has a Google code that you paste if you have a blog, among others on WordPress.
User-ID function
This feature is useful in more advanced analytics - you can use it to check the involvement of your readers from various mobile devices and multiple sessions. If you don't want to play analytics, you don't have to use this feature. For sure GA basics are enough. I use this function because it provides me with information that I later use when running a blog. However, I will not reveal this secret, let something also remain 😉
Session Settings
You have to check the sub-tab from time to time because we had a problem with that. We had set the maximum session per minute for a long time, and I wondered why the average visit time on our blog was so low (a minute is really a very low ratio). That is why. Of course, I've considered many technical issues, I even thought that you would need to set up a new GA account.
I wish I had come up with it earlier to check this sub-tab. Man learns throughout his life (especially on mistakes). You know I even thought about deleting my blog. Such statistics showed that only someone would enter the blog and leave immediately. I started to look for the reason - maybe we write badly, maybe someone does not like us, or maybe our blog is hardly visible on the web (I do not think, because the post about Darsonval is one of the first places in Google search engine).
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I couldn't find the reason, and the reason was so simple. Now I have a lesson and I will check this sub-tab, because by this setting we do not have a real preview of statistics from the last few months, and you can see with the naked eye that there are more and more readers. This and the next two months will only show actual blog statistics, which will be visible in the 'cooperation' tab on our blog.
Free search sources
Not all people use Google search (although certainly most of us use this search engine). Nevertheless, it is worth adding other search engines, which will be counted as free traffic, as in the case of Google search engine.
Referral exclusion list
If you have two blogs then you can exclude mutual traffic from blogs. You can also exclude spam here. Just enter the domain address that you will classify as spam. This is worth doing, because very often such spam traffic lies to the actual statistics of the blog. We have several porn sites and other unidentified sites that have broken our GA statistics
Search term exclusion list
We don't use this sub-tab and I don't remember ever using it. If anyone uses this sub-tab, let me know because I am very curious what exclusion of search terms gives.
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Will setting session timeout to 30 min be appropriate? greetings
I think it's better to set it to 15 minutes UM maximum
Where to find session settings, because I can't see, these new GA menus are more intuitive, but I somehow can't find myself :-p
Nothing has changed here. We go to the 'Administration' tab and continue the same way 'The' Administration 'tab is now on the left, at the very bottom 🙂
Helpful, but to be honest, I'd like to know even more! I will search your blog. 🙂
In the Blogger Guide you will find a few more posts about Google Analytics 🙂
nice blog and useful information.
I must finally look at these GA
Thank you and of course welcome again 😉
You made me curious about these session settings. I need to check what it looks like and change ewentualnie if necessary
Make sure you don't make our mistake 😉
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Thank you very much <3
Very interesting and useful information.
Very interesting and useful entry. I also had a problem with spam and recently discovered a list of exclusions 🙂 I will look at this blog more often 🙂
Is! And our ass also saves us. We used to have spam traffic from strange websites. Thanks to exclusions, we don't care anymore 🙂
I see that I have to visit you more often! Lots of valuable information! Saved in favorites!
Welcome and welcome more often: *
What a cool blog! That I haven't come here before!
Better late than never 😀 Come on, make yourself comfortable and drop by more often <3
Very cool blog 🙂 lots of useful information in one place - great 🙂
Thank you very much and we invite you more often 🙂
Thank you for interesting advice 🙂
You're welcome :))
Setting the maximum duration of the session makes sense and it's probably not worth extending it too much. Otherwise, someone leaving the computer (inactivity), and being on our site would give us some cosmic results. 🙂
Of course, it's worth setting, but not for a minute as it was with us 😀
I love your blog 🙂 I learn a lot from it and you run it very interestingly. Greetings.
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