In order to know how many hits your blog received, where the traffic came from or which website has sent you the most of the traffic you need some kind of tracking installed on your blog.
Google analytics is the one that will do the job and I believe is better than most of the tracking software available on the market even better than the ones you need to pay for.
I crreated this video just to show you how you manually install Google analytics on your wordpress blog. I always prefer to install manually these types of codes as I like to know how things work in the background. But that is only me. If you prefer to install Google plugin which you can find in the Wordpress plugins area than this video is not for you. To install it manually you will need few minutes and it is very easy to do.
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This is a really helpful tool, Gordon, thank you. I was looking for a way to keep track of how many visits I get. Good luck with the masterclass.
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Hi Gordon
Great video, really clear and easy to follow, really helpful. Google analytics or at least some kind of web stats tool are essential to know what your visitors are doing, where they are coming from and what tweaks you need to make to your site or your advertising campaign.
Cheers
Ben
Hi Gordon
Great video. It’s definitely something I will be doing.
I like your blog so have subscribed, I’m looking forward to reading your future posts.
Happy Marketing
Steve
Nice Blog! I think you’ve been at it a while.
Thanks for the great info.
I’ll be watching,
Gayla
Great Blog Gordon, I will be back on a regular basis.
Regards
Colin
Nice post Gordan. I have just added Google Analytics to my blogsite. In fact your blog is excellent and full of good content. I will return for further reading. Keith.
Nice blogging – I am a newbie to all this so will watch you closely.
Great useful content.
Have followed you on twitter, please do the same- thomasaspin
Regards
Im loving your blog, full of useful information and thanks for the video on google analytics, very helpful indeed!!
keep up the great work
Paul
Hi Gordon, WOW, thanks for the excellent video. Posts like yours are making John’s masterclass even better than expected. I sure feel like I’m in good company in this class. I imagine it’ll be an awesome year for everyone. Steve D
Hi Gordon, Nice one mate. I installed it just like you said and I have it working. You are providing a great service to your fellow classmates. Thanks and keep going.
Best wishes, Brian Ripley.
Thanks for this Gordan. I’m going to install Google Analytics on my sites now.
Just one comment, though. When you copy code, I notice that you highlight it and then press Ctrl+c. When you do this, there is always a danger that you might not highlight all the code. May I suggest that a better way is to click anywhere in the code and press Ctrl+a (to guarantee that you have definitely selected 100% of the code) and then press Ctrl+c to copy it?
Your videos are very helpful – thanks!
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Hi Martyn,
Valid point…it’s just an old habit from long time ago when I had a job copying and pasting data from one spreadsheet to another