1. David Williams Platinum

    Director of Online EMEA at Deckers Ltd

    07 April 2009 12:23pm

    David Williams

    Hi all,

    we've moved our blogs to Wordpress, and reporting on actual page visits has not been set up yet (shame on us). Does anyone use the reporting plugin widget, or has anyone integrated the latest google code into the pages, or done both?

    obviously I know that it's all about reach and engagement etc, but it would be useful to know.

    thanks

  2. dan barker

    E-Business Consultant at Dan Barker

    07 April 2009 14:22pm

    dan barker

    hiya, David,

    Shame on you, etc. Honestly though - congratulations for switching across.

    You should install the google analytics wordpress plugin. It takes about 2 minutes:

    1. Sign up to google analytics.
    2. Add a new website (your URL).
    3. Note down the ID code they give you.
    4. Log into wordpress.
    5. Go to plugins, search for 'google analytics'.
    6. Click the button to install it.
    7. Give it your ID code.
    8. Job's a good un.

    I just had a brief look at one of your blogs (music club). Something else that might help you out would be to change your 'permalink structure'.

    At the moment your URLs are http://yoursite.com/?p=1234. You could change this to http://yoursite.com/your-post-title-here with about 2 minutes work. It will be much better for search relevancy (& the old URLs will still work if anyone's already linked to them).

    1. Go to "Settings > Permalinks"
    2. Set it to "Custom Structure"
    3. Put this in the box (excluding quotes): "/%postname%"

    Hope those both help!

    dan

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  3. David Williams Platinum

    Director of Online EMEA at Deckers Ltd

    07 April 2009 15:59pm

    David Williams

    hi Dan

    thanks for that, rather helpful stuff from you there. all useful stuff and very helpful thanks. The reason we moved across to wordpress was the usefulness of the various plugins, sitting on their platform and using all that good open source code seemed better than the other options we had.

    Thanks again

    David

  4. David Iwanow

    SEO Manager at Amnesia Razorfish

    08 April 2009 07:26am

    David Iwanow

    Hi David,

    Not sure if it is too late, but look at installing plugin "Headspace" it offers easy analytics tracking, and not tracking editors,admins etc... and some other great features such as site verification...

    Thank You
    David Iwanow

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