Great Webstat for Blog or Websites from Google Analytics

Hi bloggy readers,
Becoming a blogger requires us to routinely check our blog performance day by day, because that's what we do if we want to analyze our blog traffic (e.g., traffic analyzer, webstat), so we will figure it out how to improve our blog traffic in the future. Sitemeter is a great webstat that i've mentioned in my previous post as a great tool for analyzing the traffic of our blog. Besides the Sitemeter, there is another great webstat to track our traffic performance, and that's from Google called Google Analytics.

With Google Analytics, we can get the best source of information about our blog traffic right away. There are many great features you can get from Google Analytics webstat, such as keyword analyzer, traffic sources, and one of the best feature is invisible script which will allow you to track your daily traffic without visitors getting the access to know your blog traffic, so you will have the privacy which is very important if the traffic of our blog is not that big. Anyway, Sitemeter also provides this feature, but you have to be a Premium member first in order to get its webstat service, which is you have to splash a cash to get this feature.

If you are interested to install Google Analytic webstat to your blog, the steps are as follow.

1. Go to Google Analytics
Okay, to begin this tutorial, now go to Google Analytics by typing https://www.google.com/analytics in the address bar.

2. Sign in to Google Analytics account
In the Google Analytics website, you will be asked whether to sign up if you don't have any account on Google or just log in directly to Google Analytics if you already logged in to your Gmail account.

3. Click the Analytic Setting button
Inside your Google Analytics account, you will get a full authority regarding the configuration of the Google Analytics tool. Now in the upper navigation, you will see the navigation menu Analytic Setting. Now press that Analytic Setting Menu. By pressing that menu will be automatically brought you to the new page where you can start configuring the Google Analytics Tool. After landing to the Analytic Setting page, now press the navigation menu Create new Website Profile.

4. Add your site
After pressing the menu Create new Website Profile, you will be prompted with the submission form regarding the new site that will be added with the Google Analytics webstat tool. Now fill the blank form with the correct information. After that, press the Finish button and Google will automatically process your information.

5. Copy the script code from Google Analytics
After that, Google Analytics webstat will ask you to install the tracking code to let them crawling your blog. The tracking code is a script code provided by Google.

6. Go to Edit HTML on your Blogger Account
Now go to Blogger.com and Log in to your Blogger account. In the Dashboard page, pick one of your blog and go to the Layout/Design > Edit HTML.

7. Find the code
After landing to the Edit HTML page, by pressing Ctrl + F at the same time, now you will need to enter the Find mode. Now find the code section below:

8. Paste the Code in your blog template
Now paste that script from Google Analytics webstat before the code </head> in your blog template. Look at the example below!

9. Save the Change
Save the template and you must wait for about 2-3 days to start analyzing your blog traffic.

Well, that's it for now about adding webstat from Google Analytics on Blogger. If you feel any trouble in applying every step in this article, feel free to leave your question on the comment box below, and let see if i can help you with that.