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How to Track Social Media Traffic With Google Analytics. You have a website and you are building traffic to it, but what do you know about your visitors?

How to Track Social Media Traffic With Google Analytics

Do you know where they come from, how engaged they are with your website or if they have converted as a reader, subscriber or customer? You can see all of these insights for free using Google Analytics. Why Google Analytics? Google Analytics allows you to see where your visitors come from and if they engage with your content or leave immediately. Additionally, you can set up goals that match your business goals and measure if visitors are meeting those goals. With Google Analytics, you can get valuable insights about your visitors and in this article I am going to show you how to track social media traffic. This will help you identify the social media sites that send the most visitors back to your website to see which one needs more attention.

You will also discover how you can learn more about the visitors who come to your site from Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or other social media sites. Monitor Which Social Networks Your Visitors are Logged Into With Google Analytics. The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

Monitor Which Social Networks Your Visitors are Logged Into With Google Analytics

At Distilled's SearchLove conference in London back in October, Mat Clayton from Mixcloud provided a great snippet of Javascript that could be used to record whether visitors to your site were logged into Facebook or not. This has a few uses, such as customising which social buttons you show your user or just for recording how many of your users are logged in to Facebook and then using this to show your boss that you guys should really be interacting with your visitors there. I wanted to take this idea and extend it to Twitter and Google+, and record whether users were logged in there too. It wouldn't provided me with any immediately actionable intelligence, but over time I'd love to see the trends of what percentage of a website's visitors were logged into the different social networks. Setting up the tracking Setup an empty Facebook app.

Wrap Up. How to Track Tweets, Facebook Likes and More with Google Analytics. Don’t you wish you could track the traffic impact of Twitter, Facebook and Google+ using Google Analytics?

How to Track Tweets, Facebook Likes and More with Google Analytics

Well now you can. Keep reading to learn how. Google’s getting social in a big way. Google has been quite busy lately, rolling out Google+ (Google’s social network) to a limited audience, the Google +1 button (a feature similar to Facebook’s Like button), a new Google Analytics interface and Google Analytics Social Interaction Tracking.

Google Analytics Social Interaction Tracking This new Analytics feature allows you to track social interactions on your website, your blog or on your Facebook fan page. In this article, I will guide you step-by-step in adding this powerful new tracking feature to your Facebook tabs or web pages. NOTE: Adding Google Analytics Social Tracking requires access to and modification of your web page files. What is currently supported by Google’s Social Tracking As of this writing, my testing shows that the following social buttons are supported: Troubleshooting.