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By Malin, May 29, 2007 18:18

Google owns Blogger (Blogspot), everyone knows that. But we all Blogger bloggers miss the statistics module that for example Wordpress.com blogs already have. 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:

Track your Blogger statistics with Google Analytics

How to set it up

• Go to Google Analytics to sign up or log in.
• When logged in, choose to create a new account (click on the menu next to “My Analytics Accounts” at the top right of the page and choose “Create a new account”) and follow the steps. When you get to “Tracking Code“, open up a new window and log in to your Blogger account.
• Go to your blog’s settings and choose “Layout” and then “Page Elements“
• Have a look at the footer (it has to be the footer!) of the design and choose to “Add a Gadget“.
• Find the “HTML/JavaScript” element click on it.
• Now a new page appears called “Configure HTML/JavaScript”. Don’t write anything in the title column. Copy and paste the code from Google Analytics (only copy and past the “New Tracking Code”) in the content box and “Save“.
• Now your page element has been added. Click on “Save” on the “Page Elements Page” as well.
• Then continue the steps on Google Analytics and you’re done!

Or if you are familiar with coding:

• From dashboard: – Settings – Layout – Edit HTML
• Scroll down to the very bottom in the box and locate the tag.
• Copy and past the Google Analytics code right BEFORE the </ body> tag and then save.

To check your Blogger statistics, you just have to click on your account on the first page of Google Analytics. If it says “Tracking Unknown” in the status column, even after 24h (you have to wait a day until it starts tracking), you have done something wrong.

Also, you might want to get your blog “Google verified” so your blog gets crawled – your chances to show up on search results increases. Here is a tutorial for you Wordpress.com users.