How to Integrate Google analytic with Facebook Fan Page

If you own a blog or a site, I am sure that you would be having a Facebook page. Facebook fan page helps in branding and it also helps getting traffic from Facebook. If you have not created fan page yet for your blog, read: How to create Facebook fan page?. Have you ever wanted to know, how much traffic you are getting on your Facebook page ? From which part of the world is your page getting more traffic ?

For this purpose you can even use the Facebook insights, which allow you to view a the stats of your Facebook page in a systematic way. But insights has very limited features and does not offer the amount of details that you can get from Google Analytics.

Integrating Google Analytics with your Facebook page is really simple and the plugin that makes it simple is called Facebook Google Analytics Tracker.

Here is a quick tutorial describing how to integrate Facebook Fan page with Google analytics:

Create a Google Analytics Account

If you do not have a Google account, then you can sign up for one and then use it to login into Google Analytics, if you have an existing Google account then you can use the same to login.

Create google analytics profile for facebook page

Now you have to create a new profile for your Facebook page. Simply add either the url of your Facebook fan page or just Facebook.com in the url field.

After adding the profile, Google analytics will give you a tracking id which will be something like UA-12025454-8.

Read more:

• What is Google analytics?

Add your tracking code to your facebook page

Now this task can be tedious and irritating due to JavaScript issues with Facebook, but to simplify this job, FBGAT comes to our rescue.

Facebook Google Analytics Tracker is a free tool which creates a custom code which you can add to your Facebook profile and activate your Analytics profile.

How to setup FBGAT

• Download the FBGAT script for its official page.
• Extract the content of the zip file into a folder.
• Upload that folder to the public_html directory of your domain.

Now, FBGAT is ready to use and can easily be accessed by going to the url your script was uploaded to.

For example if the script was uploaded to the public_html directory of http://shoutmeloud.com/fbgat, where fbgat was the name of the folder you uploaded.

Now that you know how to setup the FBGAT. Here is what you need to do next.

Facebook Google analytics tracker

The stuff that you would need to add is:

• Analytics code : This is the analytics tacking id that you receive when you created the profile.
• Domain : You have to enter Facebook.com or your facebook page URL. Whichever you entered while setting up the Google analytics profile.
• Page link : URL of your Facebook page.
• Page Title: Title of your Facebook page.

Now just click the Generate code button and you will get a custom code which you can use instead of the Google Analytics tracking code to track your Facebook visitors.

Read more:

• 10 Useful Facebook Tools and Tips for Bloggers

Add code to Facebook page

You can use the Static FBML app to add the code to your Facebook page. This app allows you to add HTML to your Facebook page. Just place the code that you generated using FBGAT in the last step at the bottom.

That’s it, now you just need to wait for about 24 hours to let your google analytics to verify your tracking code and start tracking.

What is your opinion on this? Do you think it will be any help if you could track the significant areas of your Facebook page and optimize your Facebook page for the kind of traffic you are getting? Do share your views with us.

Article by Karan Labra

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