April 15, 2020
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2 minutes
If you’re marketing your therapy practice, tracking what works and what doesn’t is crucial.
Google Analytics is the industry-standard tool to measure your website’s performance.
Here, I go through exactly how to set up Google Analytics for your therapist website.
You’ll learn how to…
And more.
Let’s get started.
Making a Google Analytics account is super easy. All you need is a Google account!
If you don’t have a Gmail, you can quickly make one for free and only use it to access your Google Analytics.
Head on over to https://accounts.google.com/.
After you’ve set up your account, you’ll need to connect your Google Analytics to your website so Google can start tracking website performance.
To do this, you’ll need to get a hold of your tracking number, or your UA code. It’s super easy to find.
After you copy your UA code, add it to your website. The process will be different for each website builder.
If you have trouble connecting your Google Analytics account, contact your web developer or designer.
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Google Analytics offers powerful reporting abilities.
My favorite reports to run are under the acquisition tab (found on the left menu of the homepage). Under the acquisition tab, go to “overview.” There, you can see a pie chart of how visitors are accessing your site, either directly (people typing your URL into a search bar), from organic search, from social media, from email, or by referral (someone accesses your site via a link on another website). These are referred to as channels.
Click on any one of these channels for more insights. I like to review the data on keywords (if I’m assessing organic search) and landing pages (what page of your site visitors land on).
I hope this post helped you set up your Google Analytics! It’s such an amazing (and free!) marketing tool.
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Hi, I’m Kristie Plantinga, the founder of Therapieseo. After working in the digital marketing industry as a content strategist, writer, website production manager, associate, and content manager, I decided to start my own business and serve a population close to my heart: therapists.
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