Google Analytics

Navigate to http://www.google.com/analytics

Click on the big blue "Access Analytics" button to the right of the screen.

Login with your Google account.

You will see a list of “Accounts” with a quick stats of: Visits, Avg. Time on Site, Bounce Rate, Completed Goals, %Change.

Click on [ http://www.yourdomain.com ] – takes you to an Overview of that website

Click on “View report” – for a full report

It will take you a “Dashboard” with activity on your site.

The “Dashboard” summarizes data for you with: Site Usage (Visits, Pageviews, Pages/Visit, Bounce Rate, Avg. Time on Site, % New Visits, Visitors Overview, Map Overlay, Traffic Sources Overview, Content Overview, etc.)

Note: The dates to the right hand corner of each page, you can change this date if you wanted to Export data from specific dates. There is a gray “Export” button and the “Email” button up top.

For more information on specific areas, click on “View Report” for extensive data.

Site Usage: (between the specific dates indicate above)
  • Visits – Total visits to site

  • Pageviews – Total views a page is being loaded by a browser

  • Bounce Rate – the percentage of single-sage vists or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page.
Traffic Sources Overview: (between the specific dates indicate above)
  • Referring Sites – what sites they were referrred from

  • Direct Traffic – when a person directly enters the URL of the page

  • Search Engines – what a person typed in to a seach engine to find your website

For more glossary definitions: http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/topic.py?topic=11285

WordPress

  • Making changes to your Wordpress Site
    • posting updates to Posts and Pages
  • Adding photos to your Wordpress Site
    • posting photos in your Photo Gallery and in Posts and Pages
  • Moving Wordpress to another domain name
    • moving Wordpress can be a pain if you don't remember to take all the right steps

GCMS

  • Making changes to your GCMS website
    • adding/removing content on Pages and uploading photos along with the content
    • adding/removing Pages on the menu
  • Uploading Images to your GCMS Photo Gallery website
    • adding/removing photos, categorizing your albums, making changes to titles and descriptions

Facebook

  • Using Facebook as a Page helps guide you to toggle between your personal Facebook account to your "Page" affiliated with your business and/or project that it is representing
  • Set up Selective Tweets to your FB Page helps you connect your Twitter updates to your Facebook Page, with a few simple steps and remembering to use the #fb hashtag when tweeting

Google Analytics