How to Add a Website to Google Analytics (The Easy Method)

Intro

Without adding your website to Google Analytics, you can’t possibly track your website and see how your visitors are engaging with your articles. Google Analytics is a crucial element to any solopreneur or blog owner. We all require statistics to see how our online business is tracking, and make sure there’s no tumble in visitors.

You need to know how to add a website to Google Analytics. So, how do you achieve this simplest of tasks? For the new blogger or upcoming affiliate marketer, this is something you need to become familiar with. Understanding your visitors behavior can help with your websites future expansion. I’ll explain how to add a website to Google Analytics in this short but sweet article.

Create a Google Account

The first thing you’ll need to do, is either create a Google account, or sign in from your already established Google account. If you already use Gmail, you’re good to go. Just head over to https://analytics.google.com/analytics/ and and click sign in. Otherwise, create an account and ‘Sign in’.

In my opinion, I love Gmail (although the old version seemed quicker). Having a Google account gives you access to Analytics, Documents, Spreadsheets and much more. And when it’s free, it’s even better.

Once you’re signed in, you’ll see a button to ‘Sign Up’ to Google Analytics. Go ahead and click this.

Adding Your Website Domain to Google Analytics

Step 1

When you first open up your Analytics, go right down the bottom where it says ‘Admin’. Don’t ask me why they place this down the bottom, it’s not my idea! For some reason, this is Google’s desired location for the Admin settings. Nevertheless, open up the Admin settings.

Step 2

In the first column you’ll choose the account in the drop-down list that you’d prefer this new website will be attached to. Each Google account can have up to 100 Analytics accounts. If you’re new to this, you’ll probably only have the one Analytics account, so choose this.

Step 3

The second column is where you’ll add your new website. Something to be aware of within Google Analytics, is that your website is going to be known as a ‘Property’. So to add a new website, go ahead and click ‘Create Property’. Each account allows you to add up to 50 websites, cool hey.

Step 4

You’ll be presented with a few dialogue boxes to fill out in relation to your website. Name, website URL etc. Make sure you choose the correct entry to your website, either http:// or https://.

Choose an industry category and your time zone. Then click ‘Get tracking ID’.

Step 5

You’ll now be shown the generated script code that will be relevant to your website. There’s a couple of things to take note of here. Firstly, copy the whole script code, and paste it into your website.

To make this an easy process, I recommend using the Divi Theme because it gives you a place to enter your Google Analytics code. Otherwise you’ll have to open up your FTP program, connect to your filing system and place your code it in the correct location.

The other thing to take note of, is the tracking ID which’s in large print and begins with UA-xxxxxxxx. If you’re using All-in-One SEO which is what I suggest, you can place your Analytics code in here also.

Step 6

Now that your scrip code has been added to the correct section of your website, your Google Analytics should be all up and running. To test this, go to your Google Analytics and click on Home, then go to Real-Time>Overview. Open up another tab in your browser, and type in your domain name.

Your ‘Overview’ should show ‘1’ where it says ‘Right now’. This is how many visitors are currently visiting your website, and the one is YOU.

Now that you’ve followed these steps, you’ll be able to track how your visitors are interacting with your website. It’s great to have the ability to watch the amount of visitors that are on your website at once via the ‘Real-time’ option. Just wait until you’re getting 20+ visitors at once.

Wrapping Up

As part of your ongoing blogging success, it’s important to implement some sort of analytics tool to track your visitors behavior. There are a number of alternative analytics tools available at a cost, but to begin with you’re best to get started with the free Google Analytics.

There’s not many people that are immediately successful with their first website, so having the ability to add up to 50 websites will be useful. Although, hopefully it won’t take you that many websites to start bringing in profits!

If you have any questions or thoughts on how to set up Google Analytics, please do not hesitate to leave me a comment below. I will reply as soon as I can!