Showing posts with label Analytics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Analytics. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Connect your Google Analytics account with your blog

Having a solid understanding of the traffic and visitor engagement statistics of your blog is one of the best ways to help it grow, today you can now easily connect your Google Analytics account with your blog, announced on Google Buzz.

Adding Google Analytics to your blog will give you more insight into where your visitors are coming from and help you determine which content they engage with the most. It's an easy to use, powerful, free product that is used internationally by businesses large & small.

If you already have a Google Analytics account, simply navigate to your blog’s Settings | Other tab and enter your blog's Google Analytics Web Property ID. Blogger will then insert Google Analytics code into your blog automatically, regardless of which template you're using, including mobile.

Notes:

  • Google Analytics is supported on blogs using Dynamic Views, Layouts templates, and mobile templates, but not Classic templates.
  • Because of the technical differences in how Blogger’s stats and Google Analytics collect data, you are likely to see some minor discrepancies between the two.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Blogger Stats

The coolest thing about the new Blogger Stats is that it monitors and analyzes your visitor traffic in near-real-time. You can see which posts are getting the most visits and which sites are sending traffic to your blog right now. For example, if a reader shares one of your blog posts on Twitter and the post is getting lots of clicks, you will see a traffic increase in Blogger Stats almost instantly, with the particular Tweet mentioning your post being identified as the traffic source. Of course, traffic data across longer time periods (day/week/month) and all-time historical data are available as well.


There's also a lot more data that's being tracked, such as popular search keywords that send visitors to your blog, which country your visitors come from, and which web browsers they are using. Basically, with the new Stats feature, you know what's going on with your blog right now.

The new Stats feature shows all of this data in a simple, easy-to-understand graphical user interface. Since Stats are part of Blogger, you don't have to sign up for another service, or embed any code in a gadget.

Additionally, if you want the enterprise-level power and flexibility of Google Analytics, you can still use it, as we have an article here. Note that the pageview data in Blogger Stats and in Google Analytics may not be identical, due to different collection mechanisms used. Also, Blogger Stats do not support private blogs for now.

Check out the new Stats feature now by go to Blogger in Draft, and you'll notice a new "Stats" tab. You don't have to install or configure anything to start benefitting from Stats.

Tips:

Self-view exclusion: You can now exclude your own visits by clicking on “Don’t track your own pageviews” link on the Stats | Overview page. We’re also now excluding traffic coming from Blogger admin admin pages and post Preview, providing more accurate pageview data.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Analytics with Blogger

In order to place the Analytics code on all of the pages in your Blogspot domain, simply insert the code before the closing tag in the template. Analytics will then be able to track both the post pages for your blog and your homepage. To begin using Analytics to track visitors to your blog, follow these steps:

1. Create a Google Analytics account
  • Visit http://www.google.com/analytics.
  • Enter your Google Account email and password and click Sign In. If you don't have a Google Account, click Sign up now to create one.
  • Click Sign Up.
  • Enter your Blogger's URL. Enter a nickname for this account in the Account Name field, then click Continue.
  • Enter your contact information and click Continue.
  • Read the Google Analytics Terms of Service. If you agree to these terms, select the Yes checkbox and click Create New Account to continue.
The Tracking Instructions page that appears contains the tracking code that you'll need to paste into your Blogger blog. Google Analytics only tracks pages that contain the Google Analytics tracking code.

Otherwise, click Continue on the Tracking Instructions page to access your new account.

2. Go to your Blogger Dashboard

For Layouts users:
  • Sign in to your Blogger account.
  • Select the blog you'd like to track, then navigate to the Design | Page Elements tab.
  • Click Add a Gadget to open the gadget directory
  • Choose the HTML/Javascript gadget, and paste in your Analytics tracking code
  • Save your changes.
Paste your code like this
For Classic Templates users
  • Sign in to your Blogger account.
  • Navigate to the Template | Edit HTML tab and scroll to the bottom of the code in the HTML field
  • Find the '</body>' tag, which usually appears towards the end of the code in the template.
  • Paste the Analytics tracking code just above the </body>> tag.
  • Click 'Save Template.'
  • Click 'Republish' to update your live site.
3. Done

Now you can track your blog by Sign in to your Google Analytics account.