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How Many File Downloads is Google Analytics Tracking For You?

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Google Analytics provides valuable information about your visitor traffic and what visitors find interesting on your website or blog pages. However, it does not track file downloads by default. What if you have eight downloadable files and you want to know which of the eight is downloaded the most? The easy option is to use
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How to add a tracking code to your WordPress blog

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On a typical web site, tracking code is added to the index.html page. However, WordPress is structured differently. Here is one way to add tracking codes to your WordPress blog. FTP (I prefer FileZilla) to your hosting account. Download the header.php file. Navigate to the file location: Your path may look like this /public_html/wp-content/themes/<your theme’s
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Web Site Analytics and Statistics

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Web Site Analytics and Statistics How are people finding my site? Free tools are available to assist you in increasing the effectiveness of your Web site by understanding existing traffic patterns. And you don’t have to be a traffic controller to understand this stuff. Server Logs —Web servers log basic visitor information, such as the
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