How to put Google Analytic code on your Wordpress Blog

What is Google Analytics?

According to Google

Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features now let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way.

With Google Analytics, you’re more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites.

In easy language Google Analytics is a service of Google which provide all the data or tracking record of visitors ,i.e. who visit your site, what they do when they visit your site,when they visit your site, who is the referrer of your site etc.

How to get Google analytic code

You can get Google analytic code for your website by sign up in the official website for Google Analytics

You can sign up with your standard email for your website domain.

Put the name of your domain and choose your account name,time zone and country and click Continue

After few easy steps ,you will find the code in ga.js format.

This is the code generated.You should use ga.js format code in your blog as it is more effective.You can note the ID generated as it should be used in the plugin which you use in your Wordpress blog.

How to Add Google analytic to your wordpress blog?

Now you have to put the code generated on your wordpress blog. Open your Wordpress admin panel. In the Add new plugin section search for Google analytics plugin.Install and activate it.

Under Setting section in the sidebar of Wordpress Dashboard you will find the setting of Google Analytics. Open it.

After opening the setting you will find a page as shown below, put the ID in Your Google Analytic UID section from the code generated in Google Analytics.

Also in Additional tracking code section put the code generated in ga.js Change the rest of the option as given in the image below and save it.

Now Google analytics start working on your blog ,but you will not see the immediate results. You need to wait for 24 hours to see the result.

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