How to Integration Blogger Blogs with Google Analytics

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Blogger allows its users to easily connect a blog with Google Analytics. It is a free service that provides advance statistics about the traffic and visitors to a website or blog that the blogger's own stats just could not match. And you should use Google Analytics to your blog as it provides in-Page analytics to see how users really interact with your pages. Know how visitors are coming to your site, understand what they are looking for and what learn they are sharing or how and why they are leaving.

Google Analytics and Blogger integration is very easy, just follow few steps mentioned below;

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

Go to http://www.google.com/analytics and click "Access Google Analytics" than click "Sign Up" on the next page or "Sign-in" to analytics if you have an account already.

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

If do not 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 you blog/website URL than click "Get Tracking ID" and then "Accept".

If you already have a account in Analytics than Click "Admin". On the Property section of that page click on the dropdown menu than click "Create new property". Now you should also lick "Website" in "what you like to track"; Select "Universal Analytics", Fill-up the information below with insert the blog/website URL than click "Get Tracking ID".

Create new property for you blog in Analytics | Blogger and Google Analytics Integration

Create new property for you blog in Analytics | Blogger and Google Analytics Integration

Step-3: Copy the Tracking ID and Paste it to Blogger

Now you will be redirect to the Property Settings of the website. You will find the tracking code on the top. Copy it and go to you Blogger Dashboard of the blog.

copy tracking code | Blogger and Google Analytics Integration

copy tracking code | Blogger and Google Analytics Integration

Then click Setting > Other > Google Analytics. Paste the code in the box and click "Save settings".

Google Analytics tracking code for Blogger

Step-4: Enable Google Analytics Script in Blogger Template

Now just one step remaining. You can achieve this by following any one of the two paths.

Path-A:(Recommended)

Go to "Admin" in Google Analytics.
Select you 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.
Go to Blogger dashboard > Template and click "Edit HTML".
Find </body> and paste the copied code just before it.
Click "Save template".

That it you have successfully integrated Google Analytics in Blogger. By doing this you can skip step-3.

Path-B:(The Default way, also works smoothly)

Go to "Template"and click "Edit HTML". Look for this,
<b:include data='blog' name='google-analytics'/>
If you cannot find it in the template, than search for </body> and paste the above code just below it.

If you follow this method (path-b); the <b:include> tag should be in the template or you will not be able to use Google Analytics for your blogger.

You are done, Now enjoy the Google Analytics service for your blog. If you ever forget your tracking ID for the site, then just go log in to the Analytics site, click Admin, click the dropdown menu on the Property section and you should find it here; if not click the name of the of the property and clickTricking Info > Tracking Code.

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