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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Google Analytics




Google Analytic is a free service. It generates detailed statistics about the visitors of a website or blog.

Why you need to Sign up to Google Analytics

  • You will be able to find and fix your broken links totally free of charge. Remember? Those pages that give you a 404 (or Not Found) error. Sites like http://www.xml-sitemaps.com will give you a free sitemap generation service, but it will require you to pay $5.00 fee to help you find out exact URLs of broken links found in your site or blog.
  • You will be able to get detailed statistics about your site's visitors
  •  Let you track the performance of your blog or website from one user-friendly interface
  • With its help you will attract more traffic and turn your visitors to your customers 
  • Helps you make site design improvement based on the analysis you get

Step By Step of joining Google Analytics

  1. Log in into Google Analytics http://google.com/analytics/.
  2. Click Create New Account
  3. If you do not have a Google account, click Sign Up to create one.
  4. If you already have a Google account, click Sign In to log in
  5. When you log in, your get three details namely, Sign Up for Analytics Site, Add Tracking Code and Learn Your Audience
  6. To start using Google analytics, click Sign up Now.
  7. Create New Account Form appears
  8. Enter these details
    • Account name, for example: myyouthcafe
    • Website's URL, for example: http://myyouthcafe.blogspot.in/
    • Time Zone
    • Industry Category
    • Data Sharing Settings
    • Tick Yes to agree to the User agreement
  9. Once you are through, just click Create Account. The account is created. The details of the account are: Property ID, Default URL, Tracking ID, Property Name, Website URL and Tracking status
  10. Once the account is created, you will be shown what you are tracking, the code to copy to your site. Highlight the code and copy it.
  11. Go to your blog and log in, Click Design. Click Template
  12. You should always backup your template before you make any changes. 
    • Click Backup/Restore
    • Click Download Full Template
    •  Click OK
  13.  Click Edit HTML
  14. Click Proceed
  15. Tick Expand Widget Templates
  16. Enter CTRL+F to find a tag
  17. Beside Find, type in
  • Paste the Google Analytic Code immediately before this tag
  • tag 
  • Click Save Template and then click Close. You have now added the Google Analytics code to your blogger blog
  • To ensure that you have successfully added the Google Analytics code to your blog goes to http://google.com/analytics/. Next to your blog's URL, it will say either Receiving Data (meaning you were successful) or Tracking Not Installed (meaning something has gone wrong). If it said Tracking Not Installed,  you can do the following:- check your reports for data, or you can use your WYSIWYG editor correctly, or you can use your browser's "View Page Source" feature to find the tracking code
  • If it said Receiving Data, then click on Edit to integrate Webmaster Tools data in Google Analytics. Choose your blog name, for example: http://myyouthcafe.blogspot.in/ and the click Save and OK.
  • Click Apply and the profile will be applied

  • You are now set to go for your precious reports!


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