How to Add Google Analytics Code To Your Blog / Website – Video Tutorial

Add Google Analytics code to your blog / website in less than 5 minutes using this easy to follow video tutorial. Besides being able to get an insight into the demographics of your visitors, web analytics also help you monetize your blog / website by showing off your analytics charts and data to potential advertisers.

As far as adding the analytics code goes, I recommend the manual way (#8 below) and not the plugin way (#7 below). Why? Because each plugin you install on your blog could potentially slow down your blog’s performance, so you should try to accomplish everything you want on your blog without a plugin (for example, by looking for widgets and HTML or PHP code that will accomplish the task in hand) and turn to plugins only if all else fails.

Video Tutorial Highlights with Timelines

1. Intro fluff. (until 1:05)
2. Sign up with Google for a Google Analytics account (1:10)
3. Create your web profile on Google Analytics (1:45)
4. Agree to the Terms of Service – TOS (2:05)
5. Get Google Analytics code (2:15)
6. The 2 ways to add analytics code to your WP blog / website (2:30)
7. Add Analytics using a Plugin (2:40)
8. Add Analytics manually (2:55)
9. Validate the analytics code (3:30)