How to Setup Google Analytics on Your Website and Blog

Google Analytics is a great way to monitor your efforts online. It allows you to see how many people are visiting your site, the duration of their visit, what content they are looking at and from what network. You can also see what country they are from. Another thing you could do is to set custom goals to check for certain things. The site allows you to measure the amount of traffic that comes from social networks. To access this, just click under the social tab under traffic sources. Google Analytics also lets you track your Adwords campaigns. I use Google Analytics for my website and tumblr blog.

Today I am going to discuss how to setup Google analytics for your website and blog. The first thing that you will need to get started is a Gmail account. Now with your Gmail account, go to the Google Analytics website. You will need to click the create an account button. Next you will be asked to login to you Gmail account. You will then be asked to create a profile and add the website URL that you want to track. You can also provide your time zone. Once you provide this, the site will provide you with a tracking code. Next, you will need to copy and paste this into the html section of each page of your website or blog. If you have done this correctly, you will see that the tracking code is installed.

You will start to see statistics about your visitors within a few hours. It is important to note that WordPress.com offers Google Analytics as a paid upgrade. WordPress provides users with a set of analytics.

Now you are using Google Analytics.

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Published by Dan Galante

The blog is published on WordPress, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and Medium. Accomplishments Grew audience organically to 30,000+ followers on LinkedIn & 21,000+ followers on WordPress Invited by organizers to attend and cover industry events, conferences, and tradeshows WordPress: https://dangalante.me/ Tumblr: http://www.askdangalante.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/DanGalante Medium https://medium.com/@DanGalante

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