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Google Analytics is, no doubt, the best place to check website’s or blog’s analytics data (like visitors, page views & many more statistical reports). Using it, you can easily discover from where the visitor’s are coming to your blog & how they are surfing your pages & what really catches their attraction in your blog.
Using such details, you can easily increase your traffic & even increase your revenue from ads (if you are tracking clicks). I am going to show you exactly how you can increase your blog’s organic traffic through google analytics. I assume that you have already logged in to your analytics account.
Increasing Organic Traffic from Google Search :
Go to your Blog’s reports in google analytics & then go to your traffic sources page. Now check your search traffic. you can now see the keywords for which your blog was searched & the corresponding post or page it leads to. Make a list of all the keywords & corresponding posts mentioned here. To explain further let me take an example. Suppose you have got search traffic on a keyword ‘How to use google analytics’ for your post named ‘how to use google analytics on WordPress’. Now what you have to do is, go to your blog’s dashboard & edit this post. You, now have to insert this keyword (or related to it) one or more times in your post & also make them bold or underlined (as google gives them priority). Also make sure you put this keyword in the meta description of this post. Now save this post. Also if you have another related posts on google analytics, go & edit them & add a link back to the first post with the anchor text as the keyword ‘How to use Google Analytics’ or a related one.
Now after a few hours or rather a few days, you will see an increased number of organic visits to that post on that keyword through google. Also your ranking for that keyword in google will have been raised to a few positions. So you can repeat this step for other posts which gets some google traffic.
Increasing traffic from Google Image search :
Go to your Blog’s dashboard in google analytics & then go to your traffic sources page. Now check the keywords referred by Google image search & the corresponding image that it lead to. Now go to your blog’s dashboard & edit that image’s alt tag & caption text & add that keyword in both. Also, if the image is in a post, give proper height & width tag to that image along with the dimensions as this will increase the chances of your image coming up when someone use advanced image search for exact dimensions match. Repeat this step for other images that are getting image search traffic.This way you will see a lot improvement in the search traffic for that image.
So these were the ways, that can definitely help you get increased organic & targeted traffic to your blog.
Hope you liked the post. Do share your views & ask your doubts in comments.
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great thinking mate
i never thought , this way 
your smart, and you can use this keywords for anchor text too 
But before posting the post, we have to do some keyword analysis as well 
thanks for appreciating. You can get keyword suggestions from google analytics, so you will have to research less for keywords.
Great Share Garish i learnt how to search for the keywords and when its combined with your points for organic traffic i can see a great result in my blogs traffic thanks for sharing this mate.
Thanks for dropping by. Keep visiting vast9 and shoutmeloud.
basic but important tips. Its important to notice these small things which most of miss a lot of time.
Thanks Himanshu, These small things matters a lot in improving your search engine rankings.
Great tips for Google Analytics users. Thanks !!
My pleasure!!
gud tips
will implement them 
Thanks for dropping by.
This is superb tip. I’ll implement it to my blog hope my search rate increases.
Thanks for appreciating. Best of Luck for your blog.
Nice post on google analytics. Google analytics is very helpful in many other things too. You can check unique vistiors, from which location they are coming from, on which page they are spending time and where they are bouncing back. So it is very helpful indeed.
Yes, we can check a lot of things through google analytics. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Garish! Thanks for your nice sharing! However, the traffic from image search can be considered as the low quality traffic in terms of making money or product marketing. Is that worth for us to improve the image search?
After reading this article i used this trick in my blog for some keywords.
Hope it will increase traffic
Organic Traffic is always beneficial. Image search traffic helps a lot & it should not be neglected. It can increase your international visitors, alexa rank & thus more advertisers. Moreover if you are using watermarks of your url on your images, and if someone copies it on his own blog through image search, it can really boost your blog’s traffic dramatically.
Nice Post!!!
I use google analytics to see traffic only. Now have to see other features also.
Hi Garish, please help when i go to Analytics report page> Traffic source overview > view report. I found keywords but not corresponding posts to these?
Correct ,By using this technique you can increase you site traffic .and it is so easy . I was checked my analytics account but could not found Images search keyword .Let me know that how can I found the Image search keyword
Good to see, someone is benefited from my post. Also checkout vast9.com for other such great tutorials.
@Sanjeev
go to traffic sources overview -> click google(organic) . Now in the new page, you will be able to see the list of keywords. Now click ‘None’ and from the drop down menu, choose ‘landing page’. Now you will be able to see the post, your keyword leads to.
Hope you got it. Do visit http://vast9.com for more such blogging tips.
Looks like a great way to increase our organic traffic. Well this is smart thinking. I have used to spend long time to check in my analytic reports, but I have never thought about doing these changes at my blog. Thanks for sharing these awesome tips.
You are always welcome, Sathish
me too only use Analytics to just check the unique visitors , thanks harsh for the share
Thanks for appreciating, Do visit my blog http://vast9.com for more great posts.
Great. Seriously this thing wouldn’t have ever came to my mind. You’re smart my friend. Thanks for such a valuable tip!
It probably makes sense to everyone but me.
Let me make sure I understand:
So I have a search for, Phillip pink panties (which I have…LOL).
I go to the post that they hit on when they searched it. I’m with you there.
then what do I do? Exactly?
Thank you for this…I “get” what happens, I just dont understand how to implement it.
Any help is appreciated.
Nice tips Garish
Daily I will check blog traffic but never had an idea about increasing Organic traffic using these methods
nice tips I never thought it..Just a question: after editing the meta description and posts, do we need to file a request in Webmaster Tools?