Google Analytics is used by bloggers because it provide detailed statistics of visits to your blog such as who’s coming to your blog site, how they’re getting there and what interests them.

See Also: The Basics of Using Google Analytics

Setting Up Your Google Analytics Account

  1. Create an gmail account. Gmail is Google’s free webmail that you can access from any computer, anywhere. Ideally use a login name that people can identify easily as being you.
  2. Go to Google Analytics and sign in using your gmail account.
  3. Now click on Sign up for Google Analytics and grab your User Account String. Image of tracking code
  4. Go to Plugins > Installed in your blog dashboard
  5. Click Activate below Google Analytics Image of activating Google Analytics
  6. Go to Settings > Google Analytics in your Dashboard Image of Google Analytics menu
  7. Paste the User Account String into the Google Analytics box and click Update UA String Image of inserting tracking code
  8. Now go back to your Google Analytics account and click on Continue at the bottom Tracking Instructions page.
  9. Next click on Check Status to finalise setting up your Google Analytics account. Image of checking Google Analytics status
  10. Google Analytics takes 24 hours before it starts displaying your statistics.

See Also: The Basics of Using Google Analytics