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Connecting your blogger.com blog to Google Analytics


Scenario 1:

You are blogging one fine morning.
You Notice that you have gained a large audience.
You decide you want to cater better to your audience. 
You want to understand your audience demographics better.

Scenario 2:

You are blogging one fine morning.
You Notice that you have gained a large audience.
You decide you want to sell your product on your blog.
You need to understand where your bottlenecks are when selling your product.


The best thing to do in both the scenarios is to connect your blog with google analytics.

What is Google Analytics?

According to Wikipedia, Google Analytics is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic.

To get an in-depth knowledge of Google Analytics, you can enroll in the free course that google offers.

How do you connect and trach your blog's traffic on google analytics?

First things first, set up your Google Analytics Account to track your blog.

1. Login to Google Analytics.
2. Click on the Settings ⛭ icon ton the left bottom corner of your screen.
3. Click +Create Account button.
4. Enter your Account Name, Website Name, and Website URL
5. Select the Industry Category of your blog and select the time zone you are located at.
6. Click on the Get Tracking ID button.
7. You will get a tracking id similar to XX-XXXXXXXXX-X, copy that.

Login to your blogger account.

1. Click on Settings.
2. Inside the settings menu, click on Other.
3. Scroll Down to the Google Analytics part of the menu.
4. Paste the Tracking ID into the Analytics Web Property ID box.
5. Click on Save Settings.

Done! you will be able to track your blog traffic with Google Analytics.

It usually takes 24 hrs for the data to appear on google analytics.

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