Making Your WordPress Website Easy to Track Visitors

WordPress is gaining numbers to become the most popular self-hosted blog — and I should think, the “people’s choice” CMS (Content Management System).  Here in Australia, large numbers of small business people are getting a WordPress website customised by a developer, then scratching their head: “how do I use WordPress to make my life easier?”

As a business owner or consultant, you’re flat out already – with little time to check your Google Analytics data in the normal way.  Welcome to this handy Plugin: Google Analytics Dashboard.  (Plugins:  select “Add new” and search “analytics dashboard”, select the one with four-five stars).

Once installed, you’ve got a great time saver – scroll down to the bottom of your Dashboard to see something like this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It saves logging into Google Analytics… You can also check how many visitors to each page or post when you are in the back end.

 

 

 

Analysing Visitors

There are many pages on my site with varying visitor numbers (per month), so with yours too, look at it in context. You can tell by this that I would do well to re-look at the words on my About Me page to ensure its got the juice needed to inspire some more reading. The exit rate is people leaving at that page, but you’ll have to go to the full version to figure out their path.

Another Plugin I like is Askimet to stop pesky spam comments. When setting up a new site, I always change the Permalink settings to be more keyword friendly, and untick “Email moderator” in the Discussion settings so that I don’t get comments emailed to me. What kind of tweaks have you made to your WordPress backend, to make your daily life easier?

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