Are you one of those worried about the progress of your WordPress blog? Do you wanna know how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site? Well, it requires you to drill down the site analytics to get to the bottom. With the stats right before your eyes you can guess what works and find clues on what doesn't work.  No denying, Google Analytics is the ace, still there are others that would save you from making numerous edits to your templates to ensure that you cover all the pages. There are loads of site analytics plugins for WordPress that can help you to analyze and speculate the health of your blog. These plugins would provide you with insightful data on your blog's traffic-graph, overview, clicks, referrers, post views, search terms and more. To make things easier for you we have deliberately picked up the top 10 site analytics plugins for WordPress.

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If you are a responsible blogger then you will like to give importance as well as necessary information about your blog to the readers and to the world as a matter of fact. Let's say you will like to show people your most popular articles, most popular blog from the whole network and how popular you are in comparison to others. For all these to work as a service for you, you need your Google analytics data to empower you. But it can not be shown in public. Atleast Google doesn't let you to. So you have no option but to host it yourself using some web-service or pay some others to do the same for you. The other day, I found a web service called Gadging which does this for you for FREE. You can show your blog stats by them and they won't charge and if you wish, they will give you feed-link to show it in your site. Amazing eh? Keep reading.

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Being an aspiring blogger, did you ever have questions like,

- How many people have watched my video?

- Are we developing the right creative content to attract new users?

- How effective is my content at inspiring people to take action?

If you can relate to these questions then look no further.

Google has announced that it is now collaborating with Adobe Systems Inc. to allow Google Analytics users to track Flash content.

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Google Analytics is repeatedly failing today. Whenever I am trying to change my dates or even switch from dialy to weekly view I am getting the dreaded message:

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Google Analytics is a trusted third party service that provides an accurate view and detailed analysis of performance statistics of your website without asking for your own resource. It may sound strange that some other website is tracking your performance without you having to provide anything. But that is where the contrasting concept comes in and Google Analytics differ from other self hosting analytics service providers like, Wusage and Webalizer.

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Gadging.com is a new (free) service which allows you to share your Google Analytics statistics with the world of just for your tools or application, get it as RSS feed for displaying on your blog, compare how your site ranks with others and more. And it takes less than a minute to configure.

Benefits of joining Gadging.com

1. Gadging allows you to selectively share your Google Analytics data to the entire world. You can use the provided RSS feeds of your data on your own sites and blogs.

2. Each Google Analytics profile is displayed on its own page which shows the most popular pages, geographic distribution of your visitors and other stats.

3. Your popular articles may be featured on the front page too under the Most Popular section. Your less popular pages may also be featured in the least popular section on the front page. That is not all.

4. Random pages from all the sites are also highlighted on front page too, thereby allowing pages from any sites to be featured.

We created Gadging.com to allow us to display Google Analytics data on our front page (Hot Topics). In the process we decided to share it to all. You can use any RSS displayer plugin to display the data from Gadging on your own site.

Currently we support Google Analytics only. We have plans to support other analytics software soon.

How to use Gadging.com

In less than a minute you can get your RSS feed for your Google Analytics data, share them with the world and more. Here are the steps:
1. Login to Google Analytics
2. Click on View Reports for the profile you want to share
3. Click on Email button (at the top, just under Dashboard) and beside Export.
4. Click on Schedule tab
5. In Send to others type ga@gadging.com
6. Uncheck Send to me
7. In Subjecttype in the exact URL of your site. For example for this blog I typed http://blog.taragana.com
8. Select Format as XML
9. Choose Daily for Date Range/Schedule
10. Click on Schedule and you are done!

You are done!

Every morning Google will sent a copy of your daily stats to gadging.com which we will use to update the site. You will also get an email (after Google sends us the first report) providing you with your personal url for your blog where you can see your site's statistics. For example, this blog's stats are available here. It will also be featured in the Recently Added Sites section on the front pages.

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