Integrating Google Analytics Into Wordpress

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Google Analytics is a great tool.

It allows us to track the number of visitors, how many are returning visitors, and even the average length of time they stay on our site.

Since the latest update in analytics it can be a little confusing getting it into your WordPress website. So here is a step by step to getting a great plugin to help make it easier.

First Download the plugin by Yoast:

Now it is time to install the plugin. Go to your WordPress dashboard -> Plugins -> add new

Next near the top select "upload" then click "choose file" and find the file from Yoast that we just downloaded.

After that click "install" and if it asks then activate the plugin.

We now have the plugin installed and it is time to go to Google Analytics and get our code.

Second Login to Google Analytics

Grab the "UA" code for your site (you will have to set up your site first if you have done so already)

Just copy the "UA" code, the UA and all (UA-XXXXXXXX-X)

Go back to your WordPress dashboard and select 'settings' -> 'Google Analytics'

Check the box that says "Manually enter UA Code" and paste your code in the box that appears.

Click "Update Google Analytics Settings"

And there you have it! Over the next few days Google will begin to show you the traffic of you site with more in depth knowledge then WordPress alone.