Setting Up Google Webmaster and Google Analytics
When you are new online there seems to be something new to learn every single day. Install this, change that, wordpress updates to run. I am sure you know exactly what I am talking about.
One of the things that gets left out in the craziness is something that is quite basic and may seem unimportant. Setting up a webmaster account and installing Google analytics is a little thing. It will take you less than 10 minutes to do, even allowing for the fact that I am talking while doing it it only took me 14 mins. Scroll Down For The Video
If you do not already have a Google webmaster account then please take some time and watch the video below (or click on the link below that to see it in a larger format) and set one up.
While it may not fix all the worldly problems it won’t hurt, there has been discussion about whether it can stop your site being “sandboxed” (if sandboxing exists or not is a whole other discussion).
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If you find the video useful (or I have left out something) leave a comment below. Also don’t forget to take a look at some of my products listed on the left and right of this page.
Hi Paul,
I have been trying to find this process for a long time, even had a couple of wrong trys, but now i finally got it. Tnx for making this video, it really shows how simple it is to verify the site with google webmasters, i have 4 sites pending to be cleared for verification, hope i cant set it right now.
But i would not be able to include the html code for Google analytics on my sites, because i dont know how to update html code on a webpage. please help me in this direction, i do not use WordPress et all.
Tnx again for an informative video and illustration.
vinnie
Please read “hope i cant set it right now.” as “hope i CAN set it right now.”
Sry for tht.
vinnie
I personally use Statscounter on all my sites and it works in almost the same way, but I would like to know from someone that has used both Statscounter and GA which one give the best stats.
The information that can be retrieved from these systems is simply awesome. If you’re serious about doing business online u simply must track visitor behaviour to fine tune for best results for sure!
Looking forward to your opinion
your video cleared up everything. so simple. so helpful
thanks Paul
kirst
Hey Paul, a couple quick questions. In your video, you were demonstrating on a wordpress site, and you only put the analytics code onto your site once, into the footer.
So, by being in the footer, the data is gathered for every page viewed, because the footer is on every page. Is that how it works?
What about for a static, html site? Do you put the code in the footer, or on every individual page?
thanks…rusty
Hi Rusty
Yes if you are doing a static html site you would need to put it in the footer of every individual page. This may sound like a big job but you could use find and replace to do it throughout a site.
I use dreamweaver but I am sure that most html editors allow you to do that
Paul
Hi Paul
Thanks for this tutorial. Here is my problem and thus my question. For my first site, using FileZilla, I successfully added the google code to the root directory for my first site. Then, I added another wordpress site as an addon in HostGator. Therafter, I added this second site to FileZilla using the original IP address I received from HostGator when I set up my first site. So, thereafter, I wanted to add the google code for my second site to the root directory. However, when I go to FileZilla, my second domain is not separately loaded but sits in the public domain of what I believe is my original site. Looking at your video, when you go FileZilla to add the google code, it looks like you access your site on filezilla through a drop down menu of all of your sites. I do not have that in my filezilla. Can you help?
Hi Don
I think you mean you have a hostgator baby account?
Which means you will open the main/original domain in filezilla and you should see folders for each new domain you have added on nested inside the main /public_html/ folder.
Inside the domain folder you will see your wordpress info.
The google page goes inside the folder for each new domain you set up.So just drag it from your desktop (well thats where I keep mine) into the folder of the new domain.
Folder 1 = MAIN DOMAIN inside this folder you will have the wordpress stuff for that site PLUS folders for YOUR DOMAINNAME2 and YOURDOMAINNAME3 and on and on..
Hope that helps.
Paul
Excellent Paul, as usual. Thanks
What happens if I get a 404 Error message; nothing found for Google 1234etc.