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Add New Google Universal Analytics to Any WordPress Websites in Minutes
As a webmaster or SEOer, the first thing we need to do when a new website or blog is created is to install web stats tracking tool so you can monitor how well your website performs, how many people visit your website and how you can improve your SEO strategy. This guide will show you how to install Google Analytics to your WordPress blogs and websites. WordPress and Google Analytics are the best companion.WordPress is the most popular website content management system used by thousands of web developers to build new websites each day. Google Analytics is the most advanced web traffic monitoring tool and best of all it is 100% free.
In this guide we will only describe how to add Google Analytics to those self-hosted WordPress websites and blogs. We will not cover those third party hosted WordPress blogs on WordPress.com. If you do not have a self-hosted WordPres site, you may consider subscribe it from this link: best WordPress hosting service.
How to Setup Google Analytics in WordPress?
The installation of Google Analytics requires minimum steps. Everyone can enable web stats for their websites in just couple of minutes, no coding knowledge required.
Here are the workflow: 1. Get the tracking code from Google; 2. Add the tracking code to WordPress theme file.
Step 1 . Get Google Tracking Code Snippet. You need a Gmail account in order to log on Google Analytics from this URL. When you log on Google Analytics account, you will see the admin pane as below screenshot. There are four menu item at the top of the screen: Home, Reporting, Customization and Admin. To get the website tracking code, click the “Admin”.
To get the tracking code, you need to add your website/domain to Google Analytics account. Select the Account button， then Create a new account. Choose the Website option and fill in the name, URL, site category and so on. Once the new account is created, you will get the Universal Analytics tracking code for your new WordPress website.
Step 2 Various Ways to Add Google Analytics Tracking Code to Your WordPress Site There are several ways you can add the Google Analytics tracking code to WordPress website or blog.
Method 1: You can download a Google analytics code injector plugin for WordPress. This is very easy, as such plugin requires only Google Analytics ID other than the full tracking code.
Method 2: You can also copy and paste the full Universal Analytics to your WordPress theme file. Go to WP Dashboard >> Appearance >> Editor. You can paste the Google tracking code into a php file such as the header.php or footer.php.
Method 3: Many WordPress plugins, especially those plugins for SEO offer the Google Analytics integration support. You can simply copy and paste your Google analytics code in corresponding field, the WordPress plugin can then automatically insert it into every web page automatically.
Method 4: Some WordPress themes also allow you to input Google Analytics tracking code.
After the deployment of Google Analytics tracking on your WordPress blog or website, you may have to wait up to 24 hours for Google tracking server to update the data. During this period of time, although Google Analytics shows the status in the admin panel as “Receiving Data”, still you can’t find any data coming through.
