How To Implement Google Analytic Code On Your WordPress Blog
Google Analytics is a web analytics solution that helps you with the tracking of your website traffic, marketing and many more. In short this free analytic tool helps you to plan your future goals. As you have known from earlier posts that Google Analytics is actually a service offered by Google that help you keep a track of your site visits and the activities of the visitors along with the referrer.
Now that you have known about the great features of this outstanding tool, let’s throw some light on how to implement the Google Analytic code on your WordPress blog. The very first step includes signing up with Google Analytics. Following are the steps that are included in this process.
Sign Up Process
- At the very first step, sign up with the standard email of your website domain
- You need to provide the name of your domain and select the account name along with time zone and country. After you are done, click continue
- Read the following steps carefully and go ahead accordingly
- After you have completed a few steps, you’ll get the code but in ga.js format
- This is your final code that you can use directly in your blog or website. It is advisable to use this ga.js format as this works out to be much more effective
- Note the ID generated in the process as you are going to use this in the plugin of your WordPress blog
Now you are through with the sign up process and you have got the Google Analytic code. The very next step is to add this code to your WordPress blog, which involves the following process.
Add The Code To Your Blog
- First you open the admin panel of your WordPress and search for Google Analytics plugin the ‘Add new Plugin’ section.
- In the second step, once you have found the Google Analytics Plugin, go ahead by installing and activating it.
- After the installation and activation is done, you will find the ‘Google Analytics Setting’ section in the sidebar of your dashboard.
- Open the setting and put the code generated ID in the section area mentioned ‘Google Analytic UID’
- Further put the generated code in ga.js format under the section mentioned ‘Additional Tracking Code Section’
- Go through the rest of the options and make necessary changes where required and save the entire changes made to the settings page
With this the Google Analytics starts working on your blog or website. However, you cannot see the effect instantly for you need to wait for another 24 hours. From after 24 hours you can see it working with results.
Thanks for the awesome tutorial. now My blog is up running with google analytic.
Thank you for sharing.
I will implement Google Analytic on my blog.