Here are some things you will get to see with your Google analytics software:

1. Unique Visitors: You will want to be able to see how many new visitors come to your site. You can also look at reports that allow you to see the trend of new visitors over a period of time to see if your new visitors are trending upwards or downwards.

2. Bounce Rate: You will also want to see how long people stay on your site when they land on it. This will allow you to make necessary tweaks to keep people on your site. If you notice that people leave your site within a few seconds than that is a problem and you can adjust it accordingly. It won’t tell you why they are leaving but just seeing this will allow you to make tweaks and changes to your website.

3. Links: You can also see what links people are using to find your site. This is important because as people link to your blog you will want to know where visitors are coming from.

4. Keywords: You can also see what keywords people type into the search engines to find your blog. This is very important because you can see which keywords are delivering traffic. This will allow you to alter your writing and use specific keywords to target a specific audience.

5. Popular Posts: You can also which posts or pages are the most popular and which get the most visits. This can also tell what kind of audience you have or what people are really interested in hearing about.

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It is very easy to check both Google and Yahoo to see how many pages have been indexed at any given moment. If your pages are not being indexed then you will need to investigate why.

To check how many pages are indexed in Google, follow the steps below:

Go to Google.com
In the search bar enter site:yourURL – use the correct URL either with or without the WWW
Click search
In the results screen, you should see towards the top right, “Results 1-10 of about 100 from yoursite”. You should also check the bottom of the screen to see if the words “repeat the search with the omitted results included”.

This will provide you with an indication of how many pages have been indexed by Google. Repeat the search either adding or removing the WWW depending on the first search. If your site has the preference set for using the WWW and there are a significant number of pages indexed without the WWW then you may need to investigate and perhaps incorporate some 301 redirects.

You can repeat the process at Yahoo! using Yahoo.com instead to see how many pages Yahoo! have indexed. Don’t stress too much if the Google shows more pages indexed than Yahoo! This is normal since Yahoo! can be slower at indexing than Google.

What is important is that as you add content, the number of indexed pages should grow. If you know you have far more pages than those showing in the index search, you may need to check on your robots and sitemap files to ensure they sending the Googlebot in the right directions, and that pages haven’t been blocked.

The more content you have indexed, the more traffic you are likely to generate from the search engines.

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