Google Analyics and Blogger

Ok, so I made a dumb mistake the other day by not thinking first. I changed my theme of this site, and forgot to add my Google Analytics code to the new template, now a have a gapping whole in my reports, luckily I guess it was only for a week and I discovered and solved the problem.

Don't let this happen to you, make sure you include your tacking code on any new layouts.

Google Analytics Working!

Here's my latest update, Google analytics is now working on both my web pages and on this blog. I guess I did screw up when I tried to first setup the script code on the Google Page Creator web page.

So to wrap this up, I pasted the script code provided by Google Analytics into the footer section of the page created by Google Page Creator.

I did pose the question about about weather I should use one or two accounts to track data on my blog and web pages to Ward Tongen, my SEO SEM budy. Guess we'll wait and see if he makes another comment here and answers my question. Well Ward??

Google Analytics with Google Page Creator and Blogger

So I got my tagging on my blog in and I'm collecting data now. It's a different story for the home page which was created using Google Page Creator. According to the directions on the analytics page, you have to include the script code before the closing body tag. Since I haven't found a way to edit anything other than the HTML in the selected elements using Page Creator, I decided to include the script in the footer for the page. So far I haven't had any tracking data come in. The analytics page says the tracking code is installed and that it's just waiting for data. Problem is, I've visited the site from home and from work and no tracking. Think I might try to re-paste the code in the page again. And check some help files.

EDIT: When I went back into Page Creator to look at the script I pasted yesterday, I couldn't find it. I'm guessing I must not have saved or posted it. Anyways, I pasted in the code again in the footer, so hopefully, it works this time. Keep you posted.

Last update for today ...

Ok I was browsing around the DNS provider (enom) again and this time I think I figured out how to add the URL forwarding for http://brianjkopp.com to go to http://www.brianjkopp.com. Add a URL redirect record under the Host Records section. It take up to 3 hours to take affect so I'll have to wait and see how it goes.

As for my other to do...add Google Analytics, I got my home page tagged and the blog sight tagged as well. This was very simple. I was debating using the same tracking code for both the website and the blog site. I decided to do two different tracking codes for now. Not sure if that's what I should do or not. Seems like for reporting I could then easily see my visitors for both sights. If I used one tracking code, then I'd have to create a filter if I only wanted to see one of the sites.

I think I'll ask my good buddy and co-worker Ward Tongen tomorrow during lunch, he's our SEO SEM specialist in our Medtronic eMarketing group.