If you are new to blogging at Blogger.com you might not be aware that
tracking and statistics software can be linked to your site to give you
details about your visitors. The process of adding a free tracking
program such as Google Analytics
is relatively straightforward. By following the simple steps below you
will gain access to very useful data about the kind of traffic accessing
your site. This will help you grow your site and target your content to
meet the needs of your visitors.
Steps to Add Google Analytics to Your Blogger Blog
1. Login to Google Analytics
Login to Google Analytics at http://google.com/analytics
with your Blogger.com login. If for some reason you wish to create a
new account you can do so but be aware that you will lose the advantages
of accessing other Google services such as Google Webmaster Tools and
Google Adsense without having to log out.
2. Sign Up to Google Analytics
Click on the Sign Up button and you will be taken to the Analytics - New Account Signup page. Enter your blog URL, account name, country, and time zone on this page.
URL
The URL of this blog is blogknowhow.blogspot.com
You would enter nameofyourblog.blogspot.com
Account Name
It
is a good idea to choose a general name such as Mike's Account because
this will be the account name for anything from 1 to 100 websites.
Click on Continue.
In
the next screen you will be prompted to enter your personal details:
your name, phone number and country. Complete these and click on
Continue.
The final sign up page is the Terms of Agreement screen. Once you agree to these your sign up is complete.
3. Copy the Code Block
After completing the signup process Google Analytics provides you with a code block of javascript to be added to your site.
To copy the code highlight the code block and use the command Ctrl + C to quickly copy the code to the clipboard of your computer. Leave the window open as you are going to return there.
4. Login to Blogger.com at http://www.blogger.com/
In a new window login to your site at Blogger.com and navigate from the Dashboard to the Layout tab.
5. Navigate to Edit HTML in the Layout Menu
From the Layout menu select the Edit HTML
link (third from the left after Page Elements and Font and Colors). You
are going to be adding a little bit of code to your template so care
needs to be taken here not to overwrite any existing code. As a
precaution it is advisable to backup your template at this point. You
will see the option to do so.
6. Add Code Block to Your Blogger Template
To add the code block to your template you will need to locate the code that closes the body tag. This will be very near the bottom of the template. You will need to paste the code block immediately before the tag.
To paste the code block position the cursor in front of the tag and use the command Ctrl + V. Once the code is placed in your template and you are sure it is positioned correctly click on Save Template. All going well you have now successfully added Google Analytics to your Blogger blog.
7. Return to Google Analytics
Go back to the Google Analytics window. On the Overview page you will see details about your blog such as Reports, Status, Visits
etc. If there is a tick in the status column your Analytics code is
working correctly. The screen should look something like the one
pictured below.
If
the Status contains a yellow triangle symbol with an exclamation mark
inside don't despair it just means that Google has not yet updated
details of your site. Check back in 24 hours as it can take Google
sometime from installing the code to actually providing reports.
Once
Google Analytics is successfully receiving data about your site you can
begin to make use of the wealth of information at your fingertips.
8. Troubleshooting
If
after a day the status still displays a yellow triangle you may need to
troubleshoot. A yellow triangle is displayed when the code is not
detected or not verified.
Check your Blogger template to ensure the code block is pasted in the correct position.
Further help:
You will find excellent help from Google Analytics at http://www.google.com/support/analytics/.
For details about why Google Analytics is not able to track your site check out
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en_US&answer=57053&utm_id=ad
Track Visitors to Your Blogger Blog
A tracking and statistics program is a necessary tool for anyone
wishing to build a profitable blog. It will show you useful information
about how people found your blog, keywords they used to find it and how
long they stayed.
There are a number of analytics programs that are available for use with your Blogger (Blogspot) blog. Three popular free options are:
While each of these have certain limitations any of these will give you access to invaluable data about traffic to your Blogger blog.
Advantages of Tracking Visitors to Your Site
There are a number of advantages of tracking visitors to your site.
Firstly you will get a clear understanding of the demographics of your site traffic including information like geographical location and length of visits. This kind of information is useful for targeting content to meet the specific needs of your visitors age groups, lifestyles etc. It will enable you to extend your reach and tap into a larger target audience.
Another advantage is that as your site grows you will have the ability to identify trends. An analytics program will provide a snapshot view of the results of different strategies you might employ, the success of posts and of additions like social bookmarking and networking, stumbles and diggs. You will be able to determine the rate of increase in traffic and identify areas where you could improve for instance by targeting specific keywords.
Without this kind of information it is difficult to gauge the performance of your site. If you are interested in growing your site and I am sure you are then you will find access to analytics invaluable in determining where to put your energies. If you decide to sell your site further down the track you will need hard evidence about the level of traffic your site receives.
How to Add Analytics to Your Blogger Blog?
To add a tracking and statistics to your Blogger blog you will need to place a code block in your template. This is a relatively straightforward process. For a step by step tutorial of how to add Google Analytics to Your Blogger blog see my previous article Add Google Analytics to Your Blogger Blog.
This article has covered the advantages and benefits of adding a statistics and tracking program to your Blogger blog. An analytics program will help you track visitors to your blog and understand traffic trends. Grow your Blogger (Blogspot)site today by adding a free tracking and statistics program such as Google Analytics, Site Meter or Stat Counter.
There are a number of analytics programs that are available for use with your Blogger (Blogspot) blog. Three popular free options are:
Google Analytics (up to five million page views per month)
Site Meter (starting at 25K pageviews)
Stat Counter (up to 500 pageview log/250K pageviews/monthly)
While each of these have certain limitations any of these will give you access to invaluable data about traffic to your Blogger blog.
Advantages of Tracking Visitors to Your Site
There are a number of advantages of tracking visitors to your site.
Firstly you will get a clear understanding of the demographics of your site traffic including information like geographical location and length of visits. This kind of information is useful for targeting content to meet the specific needs of your visitors age groups, lifestyles etc. It will enable you to extend your reach and tap into a larger target audience.
Another advantage is that as your site grows you will have the ability to identify trends. An analytics program will provide a snapshot view of the results of different strategies you might employ, the success of posts and of additions like social bookmarking and networking, stumbles and diggs. You will be able to determine the rate of increase in traffic and identify areas where you could improve for instance by targeting specific keywords.
Without this kind of information it is difficult to gauge the performance of your site. If you are interested in growing your site and I am sure you are then you will find access to analytics invaluable in determining where to put your energies. If you decide to sell your site further down the track you will need hard evidence about the level of traffic your site receives.
How to Add Analytics to Your Blogger Blog?
To add a tracking and statistics to your Blogger blog you will need to place a code block in your template. This is a relatively straightforward process. For a step by step tutorial of how to add Google Analytics to Your Blogger blog see my previous article Add Google Analytics to Your Blogger Blog.
This article has covered the advantages and benefits of adding a statistics and tracking program to your Blogger blog. An analytics program will help you track visitors to your blog and understand traffic trends. Grow your Blogger (Blogspot)site today by adding a free tracking and statistics program such as Google Analytics, Site Meter or Stat Counter.
Add Feedjit Live Traffic Feed to Blogger
Would you like to know more about the traffic visiting your Blogger blog (Blogspot Blog)? Feedjit
is a free tracking tool that tracks visitors to a blog in real time and
identifies what pages are visited. In this Blogger tutorial you will
learn how to add a Feedjit widget to your blog which will track where
visitors originate from and what pages they viewed. Adding a Feedjit
widget to your Blogger blog is easy and takes less than 5 minutes. This
tutorial is suitable for all Blogger bloggers (Blogspot beginners).
Updated 10 October 2009.
Feedjit monitors traffic to your site and ranks it based on popularity and relevance against the traffic received by other Feedjit users in your local area. There is a choice of 4 different widgets: Live Traffic Feed, Live Traffic Map, Recommended Reading, and Page Popularity. Each of these widgets has different functions.
Feedjit Live Traffic Feed Widget for Blogger
Places a widget on your Blogger blog of the last 10 visitors. By clicking on the real time link you can actually view the last 50 or so visitors along with the keyword search phrase used to find your site. The Feedjit's Live Traffic Feed shows statistics in real-time about:
Feedjit Traffic Map
The Traffic Map widget places visitors to your site on a world map according to their physical location
Feedjit Recommended Reading
The Recommended Reading widget makes suggestions to visitors about what other blog posts they might be interested in based on general page popularity
Feedjit Page Popularity
The Page Popularity widget lists the 10 most popular pages that have been accessed by visitors on that day.
How to Add a Feedjit Live Traffic Feed Widget (Gadget) to Blogger
This Blogger tutorial has discussed how to add a Feedjit Live Traffic Feed widget, gadget or button to Blogger to track where visitors are being directed from and what posts they are most interested in. A Feedjit Live Traffic Feed will help you learn about the visitors to your blog and what search phrase they used to arrive. To add a Feedjit Live Traffic Feed widget to Blogger is simple and takes less than 5 minutes to install.
Feedjit monitors traffic to your site and ranks it based on popularity and relevance against the traffic received by other Feedjit users in your local area. There is a choice of 4 different widgets: Live Traffic Feed, Live Traffic Map, Recommended Reading, and Page Popularity. Each of these widgets has different functions.
Feedjit Live Traffic Feed Widget for Blogger
Places a widget on your Blogger blog of the last 10 visitors. By clicking on the real time link you can actually view the last 50 or so visitors along with the keyword search phrase used to find your site. The Feedjit's Live Traffic Feed shows statistics in real-time about:
The city and country your visitors are in
The website they arrived from, if any
The page they visited on your website
Which external link they clicked to leave your site, if any
Feedjit Traffic Map
The Traffic Map widget places visitors to your site on a world map according to their physical location
Feedjit Recommended Reading
The Recommended Reading widget makes suggestions to visitors about what other blog posts they might be interested in based on general page popularity
Feedjit Page Popularity
The Page Popularity widget lists the 10 most popular pages that have been accessed by visitors on that day.
How to Add a Feedjit Live Traffic Feed Widget (Gadget) to Blogger
- Visit Feedjit
- Select Live Traffic Feed.
- Click on the Customize It link
under Live Traffic Feed. This will allow you to enter colors to match
the theme of your blog. If you are in doubt I have found that the
easiest method to get the custom colors of a site is to go to the Layout > Page Elements screen in Blogger and click on Add a Gadget and then Adsense.
From the configuration screen that pops up you can get the colors of
the background, border, title (heading in Feedjit), URL, text. If you
use these same colors in your Feedjit widget it will blend in with the
rest of your site. You can preview your widget to make sure it looks as
you would like it before adding it to your blog.
- To automatically add the widget to Blogger select the Click to Add to Blogger Link
and follow the instructions. Or to manually add it which I myself
prefer right click the code in the box under the heading Live Traffic
Feed and select copy.
- Navigate to Layout > Page Elements in your blog if that page is not already open
- Select Add a Gadget in the Sidebar and then HTML/Javascript
- Paste the code by placing the mouse in the box and right clicking and selecting paste
- Save
the widget and then using the drag and drop feature of Blogger move it
to your desired location. Note HTML/Javascript widgets are best placed
after your other widgets for faster loading.
- Save Template
- Click on View Blog to view your newly created Feedjit widget
- Click on Options in the Feedjit widget and then Ignore My Browser otherwise the widget will record your visit each time you view your blog. The option on the widget will now change to Stop Ignoring Me which you can reverse by clicking on the link again.If you use more than one browser you will need to tell Feedjit to ignore you for each browser.
This Blogger tutorial has discussed how to add a Feedjit Live Traffic Feed widget, gadget or button to Blogger to track where visitors are being directed from and what posts they are most interested in. A Feedjit Live Traffic Feed will help you learn about the visitors to your blog and what search phrase they used to arrive. To add a Feedjit Live Traffic Feed widget to Blogger is simple and takes less than 5 minutes to install.
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