How to track your Blogger statistics with Google
Google owns Blogger (Blogspot), everyone knows that. But we all Blogger bloggers miss the statistics module that for example Wordpress.com blogs already has. Since they’re in the same family I think it would be a good idea to implement Google Analytics with Blogger. But you never know, it might show in the future.
However, if you want to track your visitors on your Blogger/Blogspot without putting up a linkback-image to the tracking-service on your blog (that’s so 90’s!) then Google Analytics is the tool for you.
Since everyone doesn’t know how to do it, here is a little short tutorial for the newbies:
How to set it up
- Go to Google Analytics to sign up or log in.
- When logged in, choose to create a new account and follow the steps. When you get to “Add Tracking“, open up a new window and log in to your Blogger account.
- Go to your blog’s settings and choose “Template” and then “Page Elements“
- Have a look at the footer (it has to be the footer!) of the design and choose to “Add a Page Element“.
- Find the “HTML/JavaScript” element and then “Add to blog“.
- Don’t write anything in the title column. Copy and paste the code from Google Analytics in the content box and “Save changes”.
- Then continue the steps on Google Analytics and you’re done!
Or if you are familiar with coding:
- From dashboard - Settings - Template - Edit HTML
- Scroll down to the very bottom in the box and locate the
</body>tag. - Copy and past the Google code right BEFORE the
</body>tag and then save.
To check your stats you just have to click “View Reports”. If it says “Tracking Unknown” in the status column, you have done something wrong.
Also, you might want to get your blog Google verified (link to tutorial for Blogger) so your blog gets crawled so your chances to show up on search results increases. Here is a tutorial for you Wordpress.com users.
I started using Analytics today for my WP blog. And I’m using a plugin to go w/it. It’s a very nifty thing to have.
Posted on May 29th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
You can also easily add the short analytics script in the HTML template of blogger, for instance just after the tag.
Posted on May 30th, 2007 at 3:43 am
[quote comment="3829"]You can also easily add the short analytics script in the HTML template of blogger, for instance just after the tag.[/quote]
Yup I know. I added it to the post just in case some might find that easier than the first option.
Posted on May 30th, 2007 at 5:02 am
I think it is rather tough to find the “perfect” tracking system. Everyone seems to recommend Reinvigorate or Mint. Maybe I should try the Analytics too.
Posted on May 30th, 2007 at 9:40 am
I’m currently using StatCounter but I’ll guess I’ll give Google Analytics a try.
Posted on May 31st, 2007 at 10:24 pm
I’m using GAnalytics to track stats.
Posted on June 8th, 2007 at 1:48 am
thanks for this…giving it a shot right now!
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Posted on July 9th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
I would add only that it is not limited to Blogger. It works great with Word Press, too. I compare my Google stats to those collected via Stat Counter.
Posted on July 22nd, 2007 at 2:06 pm
[quote comment="4736"]I would add only that it is not limited to Blogger. It works great with Word Press, too. I compare my Google stats to those collected via Stat Counter.[/quote]
Of course not, you can use it on any website where you have the ability to change the template code…
Posted on July 22nd, 2007 at 2:13 pm
i was always searching for such a tool. i didn´t know that google finally managed it to bring out one. in the meantime i went to “daily-pagerank.de” and got the source code for my own pagerank display. the the only thing i wanted to have since i already have a traffic counter.
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Thanks for your info!!! I have struggled to get my blog statistics. At last, I found a perfect technique from you.
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