So you’ve signed up for a Sports Blog Net blog and you’ve been posting away, and now you want to see how many people come to your blog and read your posts.
The best way to see and analyze stats from your blog is to use Google Analytics.
Through this step-by-step tutorial, I will go over exactly what you need to do to get Google Analytics working on your Sports Blog Net blog.
This tutorial assumes that you have signed up for a Sports Blog Net blog already, if you haven’t, sign up here, and then come back and follow the rest of the tutorial. This tutorial also assumes that you do not have a Google Analytics account already.
Let’s Get Started…
- go to http://www.google.com/analytics
- on the right hand side, click “Sign Up Now”
- If you already have a Google Account (or gmail account) sign in with your username and password, if not click “Sign Up Now” and create one
- Click “Sign Up” on the bottom left
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- In “Website’s URL” enter your blog URL address (myblog.sportsblognet.com)
- Enter an Account Name (or you can leave the default one as the blog address)
- Select your country and timezone
- Click “Continue”
- Enter your Last Name, First Name, Phone Number, and country in the space provided and click “Continue”
- Click the checkbox near the bottom that says “Yes” and click “Create New Account” below that.
- Now you are at the final screen, look for a number that starts with “UA-” and write it down, you will need that number in a few minutes.
Don’t worry about placing any code anywhere, I will show you how to do that next. Once you have the number written down, click “Finish”
- Log into the backend of your Sports Blog Net blog (it should be http://(youblogname).sportsblognet.com/wp-admin
- Once you’ve entered your username and password and you are in the backend, scroll down until you see “Settings” on the left hand side
- Hover your mouse over “Settings” and click the down arrow that appears, the menu should expand down
- Click on “Google Analytics” under the “Settings” menu
- Under “Configuration Google Analytics” enter the number that started with “UA-” that you wrote down earlier and click “Update Options”
- That’s It! You’re done! The code has been placed on every page of your blog, and will be placed on any future pages as well. Now you can see your stats in Google Analytics
- Now go to http://www.google.com/analytics and click “Access Analytics”, enter your username and password and under “Reports” click “View Report”
- It can take 2-24 hours before any stats begin to show up in Google Analytics, but if you’re eager and you want your stats as soon as possible, you can change the date range to include today, and it will show all stats collected up until a few hours ago.
- Google Analytics is a very powerful program with tons of features, the best way to get yourself familiar with the many features is to play around with it and find out what kind of stats can help you.
