Step-by-Step Guide on How to Insert Google Analytics Tracking Code in BlogSpot Blogger Blog

As one of the needed SEO tweaks to supercharge my blog, I had a little challenge on how to insert Google Analytic tracking code in my blogspot hosted blog. However, after rigorous online research, I discovered that most tips on this regard were not clear. I decided to delve rigorously on this matter to give you a step-by-guide hand-on guide.

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Importance of Google Analytic

Google Analytics is a robust SEO tool created by Google itself to give you key insights about your website or blog. It helps in driving the evolution of their product either as mobile app or desktop. It shows Google exactly how people (users) are using  Google products.  In order words, Google Analytic help you discover the performance of your mobile apps 

This importance concerns us: Google Analytics lets us measure our advertising return on Investment (ROI) as well as track our video, flash, applications and social networking sites.

In a nutshell, whether you want to improve your blog or website traffic, improve your mobile app performance or find new visitor, Google Analytic gives you the needed informed insight which acts as a steer to progress your business.  

If you didn’t add Google Analytic code to your website or blog, consider inserting it now because you are missing out. Below is my step-by-Step guide to do just that in no time.

To insert Google Analytic Code in your blogger template is fairly easy and it will take at most 3 minutes to complete. 

Step 1: Adding your Blog to Google Analytic

• Visit Google Analytic Homepage
• At Google Analytic Homepage  > Click on  “ACCESS GOOGLE ANALYTIC”
•  Login using your Google Account
• After signing in, click on   “ADD WEBSITE PROFILE” This appears under the current web-site
• Select (Click) “Add a Profile for a new domain”

·         enter  your domain URL (domain name)right  in text box subsequently to where “http://” is listed

·         Select and Copy the tracking code and/or Google Analytic Web Property ID, save it to your clipboard

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How to insert Google Analytics Tracking Code in Blogger

There are two ways you can achieve this. Either ways works like charm.

Method 1: You can decide to track the traffic to your BlogSpot main domain with Google Analytic. Simply follow the tips below:

• Log into your Blogger dashboard
•  Navigate to blogger settings  and click on Other tab
•   simply enter your earlier blog's Google Analytics Web Property ID (This property ID  looks like this  UA-000000-01)   
• Click Save and your are done here. 

Method 2:  Adding the analytic code to your blogger template manually. Follow the steps below to do it with this method:

• Login to your Blogger’s Dashboard
• Click on Template
• Click on the Edit HTML tab
• Click on CTRL + F and find the closing head tag here </head>
• Copy the Google Analytic Code and place it just above the </head>
• Save your template now. I think you are done with this.

What Next?

Once you finished the steps above, you should be able to see data in your Google Analytics account within 24 hours or less. 

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Moreover, you can also confirm your account within a few hours to be sure that  data has begun to appear. To do this, take on the following steps:

• go to your report and set the date range to the current day
•  If pageviews appear in your reports, it means that your property has started collecting data.
•  If you do not see any data maybe after 24 hours, you can Troubleshoot for Common Mistakes.

Hope this has solved the problem adding Google Analytic Code in your blogger blog. Do you like this tips or have questions? Put them in the comments section, I am happy to respond to all questions.

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