TL;DR
Both Top Tech Tidbits Sponsors and Content Contributors alike can now connect their very own Google Analytics account to the AI assistant they already use, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other, and simply ask, in plain English, how much traffic we send them. It all starts from a single link on our analytics page. Your assistant reads that link, walks you through a one-time setup of about five minutes on a computer using a free, no-code connector, and from that point on you can ask from any device, including your phone. The numbers stay entirely inside your own analytics: we grant access to nothing, and we see none of your data. Claude works on every plan, including the free tier; the other assistants offer a fuller path on their paid plans. No spreadsheets, no dashboards, and no analytics degree required. What follows is the story of why this matters so much to me, and exactly how to put it to work.
I Could See It… But They Could Not
For years, I could see it. For years, they could not.
Every week, I would open my own Google Analytics account and watch the traffic flow out of Top Tech Tidbits and into the websites of the Sponsors who make this publication possible. The visits were real. The numbers were strong. And I was, very often, the only person who could see them. The Sponsors paying to reach our readers, the very people that traffic belonged to, could not see a thing.
I will be honest with you, because this story does not work if I’m not. I watched good Sponsors decide not to renew, Sponsors who were receiving more traffic than any Sponsor in our history, simply because that traffic was invisible to them. They were standing in front of an audience that we had invited for them, but they could not see that audience and therefore did not believe it existed. More than once, that invisibility brought these publications to the very edge of disappearing altogether.
This is the story of the day that invisibility ends.
The Barrier Was Never Desire
Let me be clear about something, because it matters. Sponsors always wanted the data. They wanted it badly. The barrier was never desire. The barrier was the tool required to get that data.
Google Analytics is a remarkable piece of software, and it is also, for most people, genuinely daunting. The interface is dense, the learning curve is steep, and unless you happen to employ a marketing person or team fluent in it, the cost in time and frustration rarely makes practical sense. This is not a failing on anyone’s part. I have met seasoned publishers who quietly avoid the platform too. When a busy Sponsor cannot see results without first learning an intimidating system, the honest and understandable conclusion they reach sounds a lot like this: “Well, we didn’t notice an uptick in sales, and nobody reached out to us.”
I understand that conclusion completely. When you cannot see the traffic, it is very nearly the only conclusion left to draw.
Our Job Is the Doorstep. Your Job is the Sale.
So let me say plainly what we do, and what we do not do, because I think clarity here is a kindness to everyone.
Our job is to carry your message to the reader’s doorstep (inbox), to the doorsteps (inboxes) of more than 45,000 readers, every single week. We knock. We make the introduction. We deliver an interested, engaged audience directly to your door. What happens once that door opens, the conversation, the welcome, the sale, is completely yours to make. That part was always yours, and honestly, that part is where you know your brand best.
Here is the gentle truth that visibility brings with it. When the traffic is finally something you can see, the question quietly changes. It moves from “did anything happen?” to a far better one: “what shall we do with those who showed up?” We can show you exactly how many doorsteps we bring you to. The welcome that you offer once you are there has always been yours to write, and we would not have it any other way.
What Changes Today
For most of the history of digital analytics, seeing your numbers meant learning a dashboard. That is the part that is changing, and changing fast. Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming the natural way we talk to our data. You no longer have to learn the software. You simply ask it a question.
So here is the announcement, in a single breath: Top Tech Tidbits Sponsors and Content Contributors can now connect their own Google Analytics accounts to the AI assistant they already use, and ask, in plain conversational English, exactly how much traffic Top Tech Tidbits sends them. Any major assistant, set up once on a computer, and then yours to use from anywhere.
One Link, About Five Minutes
I built this to be as close to effortless as the technology currently allows. It begins with a single link, which lives on our Analytics page and which I am also happy to hand to any Sponsor directly.
From that one link, there are three reliable ways to begin, so it works no matter how your assistant is configured:
- Give the link to your AI assistant and let it read the page.
- Download the file from the link and upload it to your assistant.
- Open the link and copy and paste the text into your assistant.
Here’s the part I am most proud of. The audience for that file is the assistant, not you. Your assistant reads it, asks you one or two simple questions, which assistant you are using and whether you are on a free or paid plan, and then walks you through connecting your own Google Analytics account. The whole setup takes about five minutes, happens one time, and is done on a computer using a free, no-code connector.
Translation: You do one short setup once, and your assistant quietly handles the rest from then on. After that, you can ask your questions from any device you like, including your phone. And if you would rather not connect anything at all, your assistant will point you to the AI that Google has built directly into Analytics for a no-setup option.
What You Can Ask
Once you are connected, you simply ask, the way you would ask a knowledgeable colleague. A few of my favorites:
- “How much traffic did Top Tech Tidbits send my site in the last 30 days?”
- “Split that into editorial versus Sponsorship.”
- “Which of my landing pages got the most Top Tech Tidbits traffic?”
- “Which Top Tech Tidbits issue drove the most visits in the last 90 days?”
- “Compare the traffic from the newsletter versus the website.”
One helpful note: we tag our Editorial links, the free ones our editors choose, separately from our Sponsorship links, the paid placements. Your assistant can tell the two apart automatically, so you can always see which traffic came from where.
Your Data, Kept Private
I want to address the obvious question directly, because trust is everything here. Whose data is this, and who can see it?
The answer is simple, and it is the very reason this whole approach was created in the first place. Top Tech Tidbits tags every link it publishes with small tracking parameters. When one of our readers clicks through to your site, those tags are recorded in your own Google Analytics, not ours. You measure “traffic from Top Tech Tidbits” entirely inside your own account. We grant you access to nothing of ours, and we never see a single figure of yours. It is your data, it stays private, and nothing is shared in either direction.
The Honest Part: Which AI, Which Plan
I would rather be straight with you than oversell this, so here’s the honest landscape as it stands today. Not every assistant offers an identical path:
- Claude is the cleanest route. It works on every plan, including the free tier, and paid users can even make their Top Tech Tidbits reporting permanent. It is the assistant we feature in the setup.
- ChatGPT works well, though full connector support is generally reserved for its paid Business, Enterprise, and Education plans, with a more limited path for free and Plus users.
- Gemini works best through Google Workspace or Gemini Enterprise; the consumer version is less consistent.
- Google’s built-in assistant inside Analytics needs no setup at all and is free, which makes it a fine option for broad questions. It is weaker at precise, filtered questions, so think of it as a quick look rather than the precise engine.
Two more honest notes. You set this up once on a computer, and then ask from anywhere; setting it up entirely from a phone is not something the platforms support yet. And the easy, no-code connectors are third-party tools, which means a single path that is fully free, fully official, and fully effortless does not quite exist yet. We will adopt it the moment it does.
Where Analytics Is Heading
If all of this feels novel, I would gently suggest it is not a novelty. It is a preview. Conversational AI is becoming the standard interface to analytics across the entire industry, and you do not have to take my word for it. Google itself has now released an official connector that lets AI assistants query Google Analytics directly, and it has built its own AI assistant right into the Analytics product. The direction of travel is unmistakable. What we have done is simply walk our Sponsors through that door now, rather than ask them to wait for it.
That, to me, is the most natural thing in the world for this publication to do. We have spent two decades trying to make information genuinely accessible. Making your own traffic as easy to reach as a spoken question is that same mission, pointed at a new place.
The Doorstep, Revisited
The traffic was always there. That was never the question. The only thing missing, for far too long, was your ability to see it arrive.
Now you can. After a five-minute setup, you can stand at your own front door, ask a plain question, and see the readers we have been sending you all along. For years I carried this view alone. It is, at last, a genuine pleasure to hand it to you.
To begin, point your AI assistant at https://toptechtidbits.com/ttt-ga-for-llms-setup.txt and ask it to summarize the document for you.
A Note on How This Was Built
In the spirit of transparency, I want to note that this capability was a team effort. I set the goal, asked the questions, and directed the work, but it was my AI assistant, Claudia, that did the building under that direction. I initiated and directed it. Claudia executed it. It felt like a most fitting way to build a tool whose whole purpose is to let people work alongside an AI of their own.
Cheers,
” The greatest barrier to accessibility is indifference. “
Aaron Di Blasi, PMP
Engineer, Educator, Advocate, Publisher & Journalist
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