Google Analytics is a powerful tool for learning about your site. It can seem confusing with the steps they give you to install Google Analytics on to your site but our video should simplify the process. In this video, we will show you how to use Google analytics for your WordPress site.
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Summary of this Tutorial:
Ensure you are signed up to Google Analytics, you can sign up using the link below:
https://analytics.google.com
You will need to sign in with your Gmail account and will be prompted to sign up.
Once you do you will want to insert an account name, website name, URL, and category for Google Analytics to know what to look for.
With your signup complete we will go back to your WordPress site and install and activate the MonsterInsights plugin.
Free:
Google Analytics Dashboard Plugin for WordPress by MonsterInsights
Pro:
https://www.monsterinsights.com/
With the plugin active you will want to go under Insights, Settings to configure the plugin settings.
There will be a button on this page to click with the title Authenticate with your Google account which brings up the authentication steps.
Following the steps, you will click to get your Google code and add it to the textbox and you will have successfully activated Google Analytics on your site.
If you would prefer a different plugin option you could go with Insert Headers and Footers.
Insert Headers and footers
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/insert-headers-and-footers/
When you sign up with Google Analytics they offer a script that they ask you to add to your header, you can copy that code and under Settings, Insert Headers and Footers you would paste the code into the header area and save your changes.
If you do not want either of those methods we would recommend taking a look at our written article for the code method to add it to your site.
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amazing. really good and clear instructions. love your channel
Header and Footer was easy
Easy Breezy..Thank you!👍
Thank you 🙂
If I use the Monsterinsights option, will my data still be aggregated into the Google Analytics website? Thanks! This video was very helpful!
thanks a lot, I'll try the plugin method
Great video,
Are there any benefits using the third method instead of the second?
Great video – thanks for making & sharing. Also, unless I missed it…..in WordPress you can only add google analytics if your plan is BUSINESS and/or above.
Thank you very much for the explanation. Followed the last method and it is working perfectly
thanks
Thank you that was really helpful!
Can i install yoast SEO plugin and monster insight plugin at the same time?? And also is it safe to allow monster sight plugin to access our gmail account information??
Good stuff!
I love the way you explain it, clear and straight forward.
I am getting 0 users on google analytics i started the wordpress blog 1 month ago after searching online it is saying yo need add global site tag on every page in the second method which you showed mam will it solve my problem? my site name is thedhandhoinvestor.in
Amazing vid!
Thanks. When I try to connect to my gmail account.. it says "Autentification error". how can I solve it? Thanks
With the google analytics can people see my site on google search engine?
Explained wonderfully. Thank you!
Thank you for this – really clear and easy to follow.
Thank you! So helpful!
make sure you have traffic coming to your website
Oooooo shots fired
What if you don't see a 'plug-ins' option on your WordPress backend?
used insert header and footer …great.thanks a lot
hey there. I tried the 3rd option and followed the steps. It showed –
"Your PHP code changes were rolled back due to an error on line 553 of file wp-content/themes/colormag/functions.php. Please fix and try saving again.
syntax error, unexpected '<', expecting end of file"
Can you please help. FYI: I use Colormag theme.
Merci
Thank youuuu!
You are such a great teacher. You make everything so clear and easy to follow, even for a beginner. Thank you for posting this!
Nice demo and very detail and on point, good job putting this together
Nice insight 👍🏽