Installing Google Analytics in Blogger

To track your site/blog using analytics you need to have an account with Google Analytics, If you already have a Google Account you can use that username/password here or you can always sign up for a free google account. In either case you need to go to http://www.google.com/analytics

 

After you login with your username/password, you will be in your dashboard area.

 

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and find the link to "Add Website Profile".

 

On the next screen select the option to "Add a profile for a new domain".

 

Click continue and on the page that follows, type the URL of your blog.

 

The final screen will generate two tracking codes for your blog. make sure you are on "New Tracking Code(ga.js)" tab

 

This is the code that you need to copy/paste on your blog. We are now going to install google analyics tracking code to your blogger blog.

 

Go to http://www.blogger.com and login with your id/password.

 

Once you are on your blogger dashboard and click the "Manage : Layout" link of your blog. First click the template tab and then the "Page Elements" Sub-Tab, where you can easily add and arrange page elements.

 

You are now going to add a page element, so click the link "Add a Page Element"

 

From the popup that appears, click on the "Add To Blog" button under HTML/JavaScript

 

This will open a final popup where you paste your code(your google analytics code) under the "content" textarea. I prefer not to give it a title because the code is invisible, so leave the title field blank and click the button to "save changes

 

Labels: Google Analytics