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“Analytics”. What an intimidating term. But don’t be scared away. As we discuss in this episode, using Google Analytics is easy and smart, even for a web amateur.

Brian Cleveland, StartupNation’s own web producer, shares with us a briefing on what Google Analytics is, how it works, and how to put it to work so you can understand who is visiting your site, where they come from, how they navigate your site and how to enhance the visitors’ experiences within the pages of your dot.com.

To leverage the full power of the web, you have to use an analytics package of some kind. We think Google Analytics is the one to tap for this strategic function.

So don’t waste a minute – listen in and get your Google Analytics on!

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I get 500,000+ sessions on my site per month.  It`s within the top 30,000 sites on the Internet according to Compete.com The size of my log files are approx 150MB each day. I have it set to daily rotation just to keep each file  manageable. Watching real-time traffic on a 150MB daily log file won`t give me any advantage.  I`ll just go crazy. I wouldn`t be able to make sense of what I`m seeing. Maybe for your type of site and traffic level, it does give you advantages. Well, th...

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