Traffic – Track Your Traffic with Google Analytics

The next step is to set up Google Analytics, which will Track all the Visitors coming to your blog. Then, you will be able to see where your visitors are coming from, and what keywords they are using to find your blog. You can use this tracking to test, and to scale up your marketing campaigns.

Follow these steps to set up Google Analytics on your Blog:

Step 1 – Create a Google Analytics account

To create an Analytics account:

1. Visit http://www.google.com/analytics.
2. Enter your Google Account email and password and click Sign In. If you don’t have a Google Account, click Sign up now to create one.
3. Click Sign Up.
4. Enter your Website’s URL, making sure to select either http:// or https:// from the drop-down list. Enter a nickname for this account in the Account Name field, then click Continue.
5. Enter your contact information and click Continue.
6. Read the Google Analytics Terms of Service. If you agree to these terms, select the Yes checkbox and click Create New Account to continue.

Step 2: Access the Tracking Code

To access your tracking code:

1. Sign in to Google Analytics.
2. From the Analytics Settings page, find the profile for which you would like to retrieve the tracking code. Please note that tracking code is profile-specific.
3. From that profile’s Settings column, click Edit.
4. At the top right of the Main Website Profile Information box, click Check Status.
5. Your tracking code can be copied and pasted from the text box in the Instructions for adding tracking section.

The Tracking Code looks like the following code – However, you only need the small part which is RED colored in the code below.

6. Open Notepad, then copy the code for your profile and paste it into Notepad. Copy the section that starts with UA-xxxxx-x (your code will have real numbers in place of the xxxxx ) See 7. below

<script type=”text/javascript”>
var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”);
document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”));
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-xxxxxx-x“);
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>

7. Open Word Press Direct, and click on Website Settings. Scroll down until you see the box the right of where it says “Google Analytics ID” In the box, Paste the code that you copied from Notebook.

8. Press the “Save Website Settings” button.

Within 24 hours, you will see data within your Google Analytics account, showing you details about the traffic going to your site.

Watch the following video for step by step instructions:

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