• Where can we find a list of the ads we have visited on Google? 
• Where should we go if we don't remember the administrator password? 
• What are our interests as determined by Google?

In this article, we are going to look at 10 important links that every Google user should know about. These are hidden somewhere deep within your Google Dashboard and are hard to find like most of the information you have.

10 Hard to Find Google Links, the following:

1. Create New Google Account...

Create a new Google account using the existing email address. The normal signup process uses [email protected] as our Google account username, but with this URL you can use any other email address as your username.

https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail

2. Create Google Profile...

Google creates a profile of us based on the sites we visit, our apps, and other signals. They try to guess our age, gender, and interests and then use this data to serve us more relevant ads. Use this URL to find out how Google sees you on the web.

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

3. Google TakeOut

 Google allows us to export all of our data outside of the Google ecosystem. We can download our photos, contacts, Gmail messages, and even YouTube videos. Head over to the takeout page to find the download links.

https://takeout.google.com/

4. Google Support

If we ever find that our content appears on another website that is using one or more Google products such as Blogger, AdSense, Google, or YouTube. We can file a complaint with Google against the site to get the content removed. This wizard can also be used to remove websites from Google search results that are copying content.

https://support.google.com/legal/

5. Location History

The Android device may be reporting our recent location data and speed (if we move and if so, how fast we move) to Google servers. Head over to the Google Maps website to see all of your location histories and also have the option to export this data as KML files that can be found within Google Earth or Google Drive.

https://timeline.google.com/maps/timeline?

6. Google MyActivity

Google logs every search term you ever type into its search box. They even keep track of every ad you've clicked on various Google websites.

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

7. Inactive Account Manager

We have to log in to your Gmail account at least once every 9 months, as Google may terminate our account according to their program policies.

This can be a problem if you have multiple Gmail accounts, in order to fix this we can set our primary Gmail account as trusted content for our secondary accounts. This way Google will continue to send you reminders about every few months to log into your other accounts. Not available for Google Apps.

https://myaccount.google.com/inactive

8. Your Device Activity

If we are concerned that someone is using our Google account. We can go to the activity report to see a record of all the devices that have recently been used to sign in to our Google account. We may also know your IP address and your approximate geographic location. Unfortunately, you can't log out of Google remotely.

https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity

9. Permissions

This is a complete list of web applications, browser extensions, Google Scripts, and mobile applications that have any reading or writing to Google data. If the permission level says "access to basic account information", it means that we have used the Google account to log in to that application.

https://myaccount.google.com/permissions

10. Account Recovery

This is an important link for Google Apps users. If our Google account has been hacked, we use this secret link to reset the admin password. We will be prompted to verify the domain name by creating a CNAME record in DNS.

https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery

Google Analytics is a very powerful tool. It is very easy to install the Google Analytics tracking code in WordPress. But for a new blogger, it can be a nightmare with so many options. In this article, we are going to see a guide to getting started in the use of Google Analytics for our WordPress website. 

Where to start

we need to start with some questions about Google Analytics. These are the ones we are going to answer with the data in this guide:

• How can I learn more about my audience?

• How have people found my site?

• How can I get more traffic?

• What articles do my readers like?

• How fast does our site load?

• What is happening on my site right now?

• How can I learn more about my audience?

The best way to learn more about our audience is to ask them with a survey. The second best way is to look in the “Public” menu of the standard reports in the Analytics sidebar. From the reports in this section, you can find out the location of our visitors. The technology they are using to access the site, and a long list of other information of interest. For example, do we have a mobile-friendly website? Should we have it? Look under Public > Mobile to see how much of the traffic is accessing our website from a mobile device or tablet. If we look at Devices, it even tells us what kind of device they're using. Have you ever wondered at what time should I publish an entry? Look in Geographic Information > Location, and we will see which country/region most of our users come from. Based on determining the time you want to publish, we find important information in this section.  

How are you finding my site?

There are two reports I love to find this. They are located in the Acquisition section. The first is “all traffic” and the second is its close cousin “all referrals”. All traffic tells us how someone discovered our site. It includes everything, such as someone typing our domain name into their browser to enter via search results or from other websites. All Referrals is a more specific report, which only includes visits from people who have entered a link to our website, or from another referring website. Exclude search traffic and direct visitors. If we guest post on other blogs, you can use all the referrals to see if that guest post has sent you traffic. If you use social media, we can also see if people are accessing it this way. If we really want to dig into social media to see the report, the Social section shows us all the social networks that are sending us traffic. This includes social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

How can I get more traffic?

Building on the previous question, once we know how people are finding us we can reach more people. There are two ways to do this: do more of the things that work, or reevaluate the things that don't. If you are going to spend hours on Pinterest, but it only sends you a couple of visits a month, then we need to assess whether the time we are spending on the site is necessary. If you are going to spend only a few minutes on Facebook, but send us a lot more, it may be interesting to spend more time. What articles do my readers like? To answer this question I recommend looking at the All Pages report, found in Behavior > Site Content > All Pages.   All Pages tell us which articles/pages are the most visited on our site. It also gives us the average time on page, bounce rate, and exit rates in the standard report. Here is how to interpret each of these metrics:

• A number of Page Views/Unique Page Views: This is a count of how many visitors you have. A number of pageviews is the number of times the page is loaded, and unique pageviews are how many times a unique user loads the page. If someone loads a page twice, it counts as two page views, but only a single page view.

• Average time on page: This is an average measure of how long a reader stays on the page. The meta of each page is different, so you can't compare one page to another, but you can use this to see which pages hold a reader's interest longer than another. If we see that the average on a page is only a few seconds, it could be a sign that your article is not interesting (or just short, only we know).

• Bounce rate: Bounce rate is the percentage of readers who only visit one page in their visit. We must evaluate why this happens and try to make the percentage less and less high.

While all three are useful metrics, average page time is the most important when it comes to guessing the effectiveness of our articles. As a general rule of thumb, the average person reads at a rate of 130 words per minute. We can use this as a benchmark to help us decide if people are reading the entire post or skipping it after a while. It's an imperfect measure, but time on a page is an average that should give you a general idea. These visit stats and bounce rates (as well as factors like social media shares) give us a good idea of ​​what's working and what's not.

How fast does my website load?

Site speed should always be important to a blogger as we don't want our readers to wait too long for the site to load. You can always test this with speed tools, but there's nothing like real-world data. Under Behavior > Site Speed ​​> Page Times, you can see how long pages are taking to load, as well as how our site compares as a whole based on real-world data. In the menu, just below this report, in “Speed ​​Suggestions” you can implement these to make your site faster. I recommend doing this or finding someone to make these changes.  

What's happening on my site right now?

A little homage to one of my favorite standard reports “Real-Time” is missing. Here it tells us what is happening on our website at this very second, what they are reading, and how they got here… If we suddenly come across a viral post, because someone has shared it on a popular social media website, we would see it in this report. Maybe it will be shared on Twitter, we can go to the page and contribute to the discussion. Maybe it's a mention in a major newspaper, you can email the journalist to say thanks and build rapport. Having information in real-time is worth gold and we can use this information to our advantage, and everything is available in the report in the Real-Time section. You can start with these standard reports, but don't be afraid to expand and look at the other options. By reviewing these, you can calculate how well our blog is performing. Once we get this under control, the numbers will make more and more sense. You have to understand that Google Analytics is very powerful. What we've just seen here is a small scope of what it can do. The more you play with it, the better we will realize. You can use secondary information, conversion information, and much more. It should be noted that analysis can be addictive, so manage your time wisely. I hope this article helps all WordPress or any CMS beginners on how to use Google Analytics for your site.