How To Install Google Analytics on Blogger Site

How To Install Google Analytics on Blogger Site

Google analytic is free online tool/service, that provide webmasters an advanced statistics about the traffic and visitors to their website or blog.

It is very important and advisable for blog webmasters to  use Google Analytics on their blog as it provides in page analytics which expresses with details where visitors are coming from, how they really interact with your pages and provide a better understand of what they are looking for.

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It is very easy to integrate Google Analytics on Blogger,  just follow few steps listed below;

Step-1: Sign-up/Log-in to Google Analytics

Log into your Google Analytics account. If you do not have a Google Analytics account then go to google.com/analytics and click Access Google Analytics then click Sign Up on the next page.

Step-2: Fill-up the Information and Create a Google Analytics Property for your Blog

If you are new and don't have an Analytics account then the next page Titled New Account, click Website in what you like to track; Select Universal Analytics, Fill-up the information below and insert your blog/website URL then click Get Tracking ID and then Accept.


If you already have an account in Analytics then Click Admin. On the Property section of that page click on the drop-down menu then click Create new property. Now you should also click Website in what you like to track; Select Universal Analytics, Fill up the information below by inserting the blog/website URL then click Get Tracking ID.

Step-3: Copy the Tracking Code

Go to Admin in Google Analytics.
Select your Account and Property that you have just created in Step-2.
Under the section Property click Tracking Info > Tracking Code.

You will see the tracking code is given. Copy it.
Step-4: Add Google Analytics Tracking Code in Blogger Template

Go to Blogger dashboard > select your blog > Template,
Open the template editor by clicking Edit HTML.
Search for the template editor.
Paste the Google Analytics Tracking just before the .

Click Save Template.
That’s all, you have finally integrate Google Analytics in your  Blogger blogs. Just wait for few minutes you will see your website data on Google Analytics Reporting section.

There is another way of adding the Google Analytics Tracking code to the Blogger blog. Even though it is done from the Blogger dashboard, it will not use the new Universal Analytics.

Go to Blogger dashboard > Select your blog > Template > click Edit HTML. On the template editor searches for: –

If you cannot find it in the template, then search for and paste the above code just below it and click save template.

Now go to Blogger dashboard > select your blog > Settings > Other > Google Analytics > Paste your Google Analytics Tracking ID (find it/created in step-2 & 3) in the text box (Analytics Web Property ID) > Click Save Settings button on the right-top corner of that page.
If you follow this method (path-b); the tag should be in the template or you will not be able to use Google Analytics for your blogger.

That's all, Now enjoy the Google Analytics service for your blog. If you ever forget your tracking ID for the site or it happens that you change your blogger template, you don't have to register new analytics account just log into the Analytics site, click Admin, click the drop-down menu on the Property section and you should find it here; if not click the name of the of the property and click Tricking Info > Tracking Code.

That's all enjoy and have fun!

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