Getting Traffic for Analytics

To get started in Google Analytics, you must first make a blog or website that you are going to monitor.  Once you have made your blog or website, you need to find a way to generate traffic.  One of the easiest ways to generate traffic to your blog or website is by sharing your link on any social media accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.  To gain connections on any of these social media websites you can use the feature where you share email contact, and the programs can suggest new connections.  This will make it easier to have some connections to work with and it will allow you to move onto the next step which is posting the link of your blog or website and posting an invitation to social media.  If it is a blog you created, you have to be careful when you are posting the link to the social media website you have chosen.  There is a blog link and there are links to individual blogs.  The one you want to post on social media is the "longer" link.  Lastly, a great way to get noticed in social media is visuals.  When you post the links to your social media website make sure you have pictures or graphs in all of your posts.

Making a Facebook Ad is another great way to add more clicks to your blog.

Step 1: Go to https://www.facebook.com/ads/create and click on the "Clicks to Website" option.  There are many different options it offers but the best one for now would be "Clicks to Website".  After you click this option, you can copy the blog link of your own personal blogger.

Step 2:  Once you pick clicks and attach your link, you will be asked to select an audience that you would like to target  There are a few different options such as age range, geographical area, interests and behaviors.  However, it is important to pick certain interests because it help your blogs get more clicks.

Step 3: In addition to selecting a "target market" to gain clicks, it is important to add a picture or two. Images will help attract people to your blog and gain your blog clicks.  You can add a picture by uploading one, or using the free stock images available.  Once you pick the image you are also given the option to crop the image to change how they appear in your ads.  Facebook gets a little complicated when it comes to the images, so you just need to make sure it is the right size that Facebook requires.

Step 4:  The next step is to pick your budget for the ad.  The two different options for the budget are per day, or Lifetime Budget.  You then have to choose how much money you want to spend and how many days you want to spend it for.

Step 5: Now that you have selected your criteria for your ad, you are ready to go!  Just click place order, add your credit card and you can begin tracking "Clicks to Website".