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Saturday, June 25, 2011

DID YOU INSTALL GOOGLE ANALYTICS CODE CORRECTLY

Google Analytics is a marvelous tool for all bloggers to find out all details about traffic source, and analyze it. The valuable information provided by Google Analytics will help a blogger to improve the way of blogging. Hopes that all you know how to install Google Analytics Code in your blog. If you have any doubt please refer these posts. Google analytics setup and Video Tutorials of Google Analytics. In this post, I would like to explain how will you check whether you had correctly installed the code of Google Analytics.

How to find whether you installed GA code correctly?

There are two ways to find this. One is Internal Audit and other is External Audit.

Internal Audit :

Login to Google Analytic. Take the “Over view’’ in the dashboard. As given in the picture given below, I highlighted a RED ROUND given where EDIT is there. Just click on that.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS DASHBOARD

When you click on the EDIT then you will reach another page where you can see “Tracking Not Installed” followed by a link “Check Status”.

Click on “Check Status” and you can know the status of your GA code.

How you can check the functioning of the Google Analytics code externally?

External Audit :

You can check if a site is already running Google Analytics by viewing the site's source code using your browser, and searching for the Google Analytics tracking code in your page's source code.

In Firefox:

Open your browser
Navigate to the site you wish to track
Click View - Page Source from the browser's menu or press ctrl-U.
Then search for that Analytic code, Java script which you have installed in the HTML of your blog.

In Google Chrome:

Open your browser
Select the icon that looks like a page (next to the wrench)
Click Developer , View Source
Then search for that Analytics code, Java script which you have installed in the HTML of your blog.

In Internet Explorer:

Open your browser
Navigate to the site you wish to track
Click View Source in the browser's tool bar
Search for Google Analytic code, Java script which you have installed in the HTML of your blog.

If the site is already running Google Analytics, you will find a snippet of JavaScript code that looks like one of the following:

Older Version of the Google Analytics Tracking Code

Newer Version of the Google Analytics Tracking Code

If you had installed Google Analytics successfully, then it will start tracking your data. When you login and visit your DASH BOARD that looks like this

Thursday, April 2, 2009

SETUP GOOGLE ANALYTICS IN YOUR SITE

A master work from Google for blogger users is Google Analytics. Google analytics show useful information about how many people visited, from where people visiting your site, how people found your blog, keywords they searched to find you and how long they stayed in your site.

Using Google analytics help to Search Engine Optimisation, blog promotion, using correct keywords, lables, traffic analysis and how to make money online.

All bloggers must make use of Google Analytics and try to analyze the potential behind their blog or site. Based upon these analyses, try to change your way of approach and earn more money.

Here in this article I’m trying to teach you how to Setup a Google Analytics account. You should approach this with utmost care so that the data will be most useful for you.

If you feel any doubt please feel free to comment and ask me.

SETUP A GOOGLE ANALYTICS ACCOUNT

Click here to go to Google Analytics and sign in using your Blogger username and password. Your login screen looks like this:

New users can make a new account also with this. The signup form looks like this.

After filling all required details, Click on the Create My account and your email will get a confirmation email and click the link on that. It will take you to manage your account. Clicking further will take you to a page like this

You can put the URL of your blog without http://, choose an Account Name, Country and Time zone. Then click continue.

You will reach a Page like this:

You may put your contact information in this and then proceed to the Accept User Agreement tab.

Read the USER AGREEMENT fully and click on “Yes I agree above terms and conditions” and then click on Create New Account

Once you accept the User Agreement, and Click on create new account then you will reach Add Tracking. This is very important step.

You can see two different types of CODES, one is NEW TRACKING CODE and other is LEGACY TRACKING CODE. You had to copy any one of the code and place it in your website or blog. It’s better to use the NEW TRACKING CODE.

Now just copy that code and paste it into notepad or into a MS Word document. Save it as you’ll need to use it later.

After finishing copying the CODE, you click on the CONTINUE button. Now you will reach Google Analytics dashboard. It will look like this.

In this dashboard you can see name of your website or blog URL in the left top corner and Account name on the right top corner. In the middle you can see “STATUS” with a yellow triangle. This indicates that there is no data from your site coming to Google Analytics. This will be ok once you add the code in the HTML of your site.

Now listen to the most important part: Addition of CODE in your site

CLICK HERE TO READ HOW YOU WILL ADD GA TRACKING CODE TO YOUR BLOGGER TEMPLATE

ADD GOOGLE ANALYTIC TRACKING CODE TO YOUR BLOGGER TEMPLATE

Before reading this, it is advisable to read SETUP AN GOOGLE ANALYTIC ACCOUNT AND HOW TO GET GA CODE

Be very careful in doing this.

Click on the “Layout” => “Edit HTML” tabs.

This will bring you to the template code.

At first download a copy of your TEMPLATE to your computer as a BACK UP. This will help you to retain your old settings and layout in case you make any mistake.

Then start editing the HTML of your template in the template window, go to the bottom of the HTML code and find out </body> tag.

Now, take the GA code that you saved after making an analytic ( Click here to SETUP AN GOOGLE ANALYTIC ACCOUNT AND HOW TO GET GA CODE) account, copy it and paste it above the </body> tag.

.You can see the yellow highlighted portion is the GA code and the Red rounded portion is the “body tag”.

Now save your template. If you get any error messages, then make sure that you don’t delete any part in your template or you miss any part of the code.

Once the Template is successfully saved then you can confirm the working of the CODE.

FIND FUNCTIONALITY OF GA CODE:

Take the “Over view’’ in the dashboard. As given in the picture given below, I highlighted a RED ROUND given where EDIT is there. Just click on that.

When you click on the EDIT then you will reach another page where you can see “Tracking Not Installed” followed by a link “Check Status”.

Click on “Check Status” and you can know the status of your GA code.

How you can check the functioning of the code externally?

You can check if a site is already running Google Analytics by viewing the site's source code using your browser, and searching for the Google Analytics tracking code in your page's source. Here's how to view your source code:

In Firefox: