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Introduction to Google Analytics: A Guide for Absolute Beginners
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Introduction to Google Analytics: A Guide for Absolute Beginners

by Todd Kelsey
June 2017
Beginner content levelBeginner
160 pages
3h 9m
English
Apress
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© Todd Kelsey 2017
Todd KelseyIntroduction to Google Analytics10.1007/978-1-4842-2829-6_3

3. Getting Traffic for Analytics

Todd Kelsey
(1)
Wheaton, Illinois, USA
 
This chapter looks at a couple of basic techniques for generating traffic on a blog or web site, following the previous chapter about creating a blog. The chapters are written as self-contained experiments. Ultimately, you need traffic in order to be able to look at analytics, so this chapter describes a few ways to generate traffic.

Basic Social Media Promotion

One of the easiest ways to get some test traffic to your blog or web site is by sharing a link to a post on any social media accounts you have. (If you don’t have any, I suggest signing up for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn). ...
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