Google Analytics Plugin

Finally got Google Analytics sorted out for my blog. Once I had signed up and linked to this site I had the code but where to put it? Luckily it didn’t take long to find a quick solution via a plugin, so here is what you need to do:

1. First, download the analytics plugin here
2. Unzip the plugin and upload to your wpcontent/plugins folder
3. Log into your wordpress dashboard and click on ‘plugins’ in the top right corner
4. You will see a list of active and non active plugins, scroll to the google analytics plugin and activate
5. Now go to the google analytics site and log in or sign up, visit the site here
6. Once signed in, click on Add a Profile for a New Domain
7. Enter the URL of your site/blog
8. Select your country and time zone, click finish
9. You should now see the html code you need to add to your site. Copy this and go back to your wordpress dashboard
10. Click on settings and then click on Google Anaytics
11. You will now see a text box, paste the analytics code into that box and click update options

That’s it, you have now added the Google Analytics code to your blog.

To check everything is working ok, log back into your analytics account. Next to your blog’s URL it should say ‘Receiving Data’, if so, then everything is working.

If it shows ‘Tracking not installed’ then there is a problem somewhere. Click ‘check status’ and Google will report back if it can find the code on your blog. If not, try re-adding the code again.

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