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When you start a website, you have very specific goals in mind. What are yours? Do you want to promote your business, expand your customer base, sell products online, make money from ads? Maybe you don’t even pursue any business goals and just use your website for personal development and communication. Anyway, if you own a website, you’ll want to know how successful it is, how many people know about it, and who are the visitors. But what is the best way to find out? Without a shadow of a doubt, it’s an online tool you’ve probably heard about – <\/span>Google Analytics<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you start a website, you have very specific goals in mind. What are yours? Do you want to promote your business, expand your customer base, sell products online, make money from ads? Maybe you don’t even pursue any business goals and just use your website for personal development and communication. Anyway, if you own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":36321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[151],"yoast_head":"\nGoogle Analytics for Beginners: Must-Follow Metrics | NING<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Knowing how to use Google Analytics gives you an access to incredibly useful analytical data. 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