One of the most exciting aspects of setting up a new site is turning on Google Analytics. At first, of course, you will see zeros in all those places displaying site metrics. And then, after clicking reload on your browser a couple hundred times, the numbers begin populating. From there you can witness the growth and expanse of your new site, see who is visiting, what they are coming for, how they got there, where they are coming from … all sorts of useful and fascinating information.
I’ll be watching my metrics closely over the next few weeks. I’ve added my site to the appropriate places, have tagged my content and home page in a way the ‘bots’ should find them. It will be most interesting to see who visits the site and what they looked at. Even better will be if they call and hire me.
Next, we’ll get Feedburner plugged in …