Posts Tagged ‘google analytics’

Using Google Analytics on a WordPress Site

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

One of the awesome things about web-based marketing communications is that it can be measured in many different ways. I’ve long been intrigued with web metrics tools and have used a few different platforms to assess visitor volume and usage of both personal and professional websites. Since I’ve heard great things about Google Analytics, and have been impressed with both its online product demo and some of the vids at Google’s Conversion University, I decided to give it a try here on my WordPress site.

Setup was pretty easy. For a site I coded myself, I would have known right where to place the all-important code that makes Google Analytics tick. However, now that I’m using WordPress (with a pre-designed theme) I had to poke around a little to find the right place to paste it. Hopefully this post will save you a little time if you are trying to accomplish the same thing. (more…)