Google Analytics (http://analytics.google.com) is a web service from Google that measures traffic to a webpage or blog. You can exactly see how many people visit your blog, where they come from, how often they come, what they click on your site and how they exit your site. But, you won't be able to identify them personally (Thank God!); you will only get anonymous information aggregated in different measures.

In this hub, I will show why you need to set up Google Analytics for your Hub pages and how to setup Google Analytics with an easy step-by-step tutorial.

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Visit http://analytics.google.com to create a new free account for Google Analytics. If you have a Google/Gmail user id, you can use it to login straight away. When you sign in, you will land up in the “Analytics Settings” page. Follow the screenshots if the instructions are nto clear. Click on each screenshot picture to enlarge to a larger size.

Look for “Add Website Profile »” [Track another website with Analytics] option, Create a new website profile.

Type in hupages.com (do not type in your profile ID or any specifc hub pages URL). Just hubpages.com is enough.

You need not change the time zone. Click “Continue” to go to the next screen.

On the next screen, you will see a “Tracking code” window. Do not worry about copying the code. Look for the tracking code which will be in this format “UA-XXXXXX-XX”. Copy this tracker code without double quotes. Click Finish and exit from Google Analytics.

Now, go back to Hubpages à My Account page. Click on “Affiliate Settings” and you will see “Analytics” field just below the ebay field. Paste the UA-XXXXXX-XX without any quotes or double quotes. Your Google Analytics tracker code will be automatically saved and your tracking will begin within 24 hours.

Leave a day or two and then log in to your Google Analytics account to see your hubs traffic information. That’s all, isn’t that simple?

When you join Google Analytics and get your unique tracking code, whenever you embed that code into a blog or a website, you are telling Google to track that blog or site for you. When you copy and paste the "tracker code" in the Hub pages Account page, all your hub pages that you have and the new hubs that you are creating will be embedded with the unique tracking code and Google will track the hub pages. Google Analytics has an extensive range of features that measure traffic, source, browser behaviours that might help you to improve your blog or website.

I would also recommend you to read the second part of the article How Google Analytics will bring More Traffic and Money for Hubbers : 10 Observations that tells how you can use Google Analytics effectively to get more traffic, write more traffic-inviting hubs and make more money.

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