As a blogger, you might be wanted to track the traffic statistics of your blog. Which tool Is the best to know site statistics? How much does it cost? Absolutely Google analytics is the best and free. If you start to use Google Analytics, you will be addicted to it.
Yes. It is really fun to view which keyword brings visitor to your blog, from where like country, state or city, how long he read your blog, how many visitors came from SE or twitter of facebook, how many return visitors & new visitors etc.
Watch the below video tutorial. If you can’t watch the video, follow the below steps to submit your blog in Google analytics.
How to submit your blog to Google Analytics?
1. Go to www.google.com/analytics
2. Sign up using your Google account.
3. Once you logged in, fill up the details about you and your blog. In last step, you will be provided tracking code.
4. You should paste this code in your blog.
5. To do this, go to wordpress dashboard. Go to ‘Editor’ under ‘Appearance tab’.
6. Click on ‘Footer.php’. Paste the code before tag.
7. Then click ‘Update file’.
8. Come back to Google analytics. Click ‘Save and Finish’ button. That’s all. You have finished Google analytics submission.
Within 24 hours Google analytics starts to show your traffic details. If you have query regarding this, leave a comment or contact us. We are ready to Set up this for you. For more video tutorials, subscribe and watch our Youtube video channel.
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Yes Isaac. Google analytics shows self visit counting. Soon i will come with a post to resolve that problem.
in this video i saw your header.php after this code
coming this code but in my header.php there isnt this code… can i put same this code? or must i costimize it for my site?
Hi Mustafa, Have you signed up in google analytics? If you have not done yet, first do it here http://www.google.com/analytics Then When you finish last step, it will give you one code. Just copy and paste the code in header.php. In header.php, you have to paste the code between <head and <title lines…
If you use thesis theme, you can just paste the code in "Header Scripts" in "Thesis Options".
Google analytics:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL-ozmjxcm0
Thanks for the great information…very helpful
I completely agree – Google Analytics is addictive! I’ve only been using it for about a month and it’s really been useful, but am still learning how to get the most out of it. I looked at the tutorial you have posted, it’s really helpful, thanks.
I think it’s great to analyse trends and to see what parts of the website are drawing more attention than others, then shows me where I need to improve the website. When I first started this job just over a month ago, I read an article written by someone else at the company I work for on Google Analytics and helped me alot too – http://www.lucidica.com/blog/online-marketing/top-5-tips-for-a-small-business-using-google-analytics/