How to Successfully Add Google Analytics to a Blogger Blog

Written by Clement Faria on December 4, 2009 under Web Development.

A lot of people use the visitor racking tool Google Analytics. This free service offered by Google allows you track visitors, their sources and the performance of your blogs and websites directly from a simple, easy-to-use interface. Google Analytics can also be easily integrated with your Adsense account.

To include the Google Analytics service in your site, you must 1st generate some small code to place into your website’s source code. To generate Your Google Analytics Code, follow the simple instructions below.

Generate the Google Analytics Code

1. Login to Google Analytics at http://google.com/analytics/. The main Settings page loads.
2. Click on Add Website Profile. A form displays.
3. Select Add a Profile for a New Domain.
4. Enter the URL of your site or blog.
5. Select your country and time zone. Click Finish.
6. Analytics provides you with a code block – a swatch of HTML – to add to your site’s pages.
7. Highlight the code block and then copy it by selecting Edit > Copy or Ctrl-C or Command-C.

Adding the Google Analytics Code into Your Blogger Blog

1. Login to http://www.blogger.com/. Wait for The Dashboard to load.
2. Under the blog you want to add Analytics tracking to, click on Layout or Template.
3. Click on Edit HTML. An editing screen for your blog template’s HTML displays. Just scroll to the bottom.
4. Look for the end of the template. It’ll look like:

</div> </div>
<!– end outer-wrapper –>
(Google Analytics Code Block is going to go here!!!)
</body>
</html>

5. Put your cursor right before that </body> tag.
6. Paste the Google Analytics Code Block by selecting Edit > Paste, Ctrl -V or Command-V.
7. Click Save Changes.

After following those instructons, you would have succesfully added the Google Analytics Code into Your Blogger Blog. You should check the code to make sure everything is working you should go back to your Analytics account and see if the blog has been installed.

1. To ensure that you have successfully added the Google Analytics Code Block to your Blogger blog, go back to http://google.com/analytics/.
2. Next to your blog’s URL it will say either Receiving Data (you were successful) or Tracking Not Installed (something is amiss).
3. If it said Tracking Not Installed, click on Check Status. Google then checks your blog for the Analytics Code Block and reports back if it find it or not.
4. If not, try re-pasting the Code Block in.

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