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Showing posts with label Blogging Tips. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Add Google Analytics to Your Blog

Adding Google Analytics to your Blogspot is pretty easy.
Simply follow these steps.

NOTE: If you already added Google Analytics and you are seeing a warning icon, skip to #12 below and follow the instructions.

1. Login to (or signup) http://www.google.com/analytics/
2. Click on "Add new profile"
3. Select "Add a profile for a new domain"
4. Enter your blogspot / blog website URL
5. Now, Google Analytics will show you a block of code. Copy the entire code.
6. Login to your blogspot account, click on Layout and click edit HTML.
7. Search for </body>
8. Put your cursor right before </body>, and paste the code provided by Google Analytics.
9. Save Template.
10. Go back to Google Analytics.
11. You should see your blog URL and an icon that indicates tracking is installed.

12. If you see a warning icon in the Status column, click on "Edit" located on the right hand side in the same row showing your blog URL.
13. Then click on "Check Status"
14. Your warning icon should now be gone, provided you have done everything properly as outlined here.


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Add your blog website URL to Google

To add your blogspot website URL to Google, go to http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Then your site will get indexed by Google, hopefully.

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Using Google Webmasters for your Blog

Google has a great service called Webmaster Tools (http://www.google.com/webmasters/)
By adding your site to Webmasters tools, you get access to website diagnostics and statistics.

Try it out for yourself.

1. Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/ and log in.
2. Add your website address
3. You need to verify you own this website. Select that you will verify using a META Tag.
4. The page will show you a meta tag enclosed in "<meta>".
5. Copy this meta tag and now log into your blogspot account.
6. In blogspot, go to Layout and click "Edit HTML"
7. Find the <head> tag and paste the meta tag as below.
If you don't have a slash at the end of the meta tag, put in one yourself. You will need it, ie. <meta blah blah blah />

<head>

<meta content="'blah" blah="'" name="'verify-v1'/">
... ...


8. Now save it and go back to Google Webmaster tools.
9. Click verify and you should be verified that you own this website.
10. And here are resources to help you out - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/



Now, when you are logged into Webmaster tools, go to Site Configuration and click Sitemaps.
Submit a sitemap for your blogspot, which should the URL of your blog feed.
For me, I submitted http://dosheey.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default as my sitemap.



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