Site Overlay from Google Analytics

Site Overlay from Google Analytics

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Site overlay allows you to monitor click-through rates on your blog.

This is particularly useful for monitoring progress of a particular part of your blog or to track banner campaigns within a given date range.

How does it work?

Google does this by placing an overlay of mini indicators next to clickable links on your webpage.
Stats from this tool can prove useful for a blogger in determining which area of the blog is performing well.

Generally, the first fold of your webpage gets the most level of activity. This is the part that is viewed immediately before the reader scrolls down to view the rest.

Depending on your setup, by default, site overlay would only track internal links and not external.
Not only does it display number of clicks on a particular link, it can display revenue or profit associated with each link or page

Requirements

  • Google Analytics account
  • Google Adwords (Optional)

Procedure:

  • Login to Analytics account
  • Select your web profile
  • Select Content from your side menu
  • Under Click Patterns, select Site Overlay

About the Author

John Lufadeju

  • http://web2andmore.net Kevin Tea

    I am having a battle with Google at the moment. When I upgraded Thesis and had problems with my plugins for some reason all my indexed URLs went out of the window and I have a horrible suspicion my page ranking will disappear shortly, too. For the last three days I have been trying to get the sitemap re-scanned but it tells me that Google cannot scan my site because there's a robots.txt file blocking it. I've been in and removed everything like that buit I'm still waiting ….

    If I ever get it kicked into submission I'll give this overlays tool a test drive.

  • http://www.yourblogtools.com/ John Lufadeju

    Yes, I recall your previous plugins drama.
    I have a similar issue actually, XML sitemap plugin seems happy synchronising, however, Google Webmaster Tools flags up an error ‘status’ with zero indexed URLs.
    That said, Google appears to be finding my pages.

    I just ran a search on Google for your last three blog posts, and they are all present.
    Try rebuilding the XML file within Google Webmaster Tools.

    Are you getting the robots.txt error message within WordPress?

  • http://web2andmore.net Kevin Tea

    I have rebuilt the sitemaps.xml file from within the plugin for WordPress and resubmitted dozens of times through Google's web tools service. Not getting the robots.txt error , so I guess the cache has cleared. All very weird.

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