Comments on: Getting Started With Google Analytics

By: denisrenepl

denisrenepl — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:15:20 +0000

EVERYTHING ON WORDPRESS is different. I can not follow this steps. WordPress has a whole new web page.
Please make a new video!

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:54:16 +0000

Theoretically, the GA code can go anywhere as long as it loads, but it’s best to have it as close to the end of the page as possible so it won’t interfere with loading the page.

By: podbuzz

podbuzz — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:11:06 +0000

What if my theme does not have that section in the footer.php? then where in footer.php should I copy my code to?

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:00:10 +0000

Great video, really well produced. What do you use?

By: bedfordtowntaxi

bedfordtowntaxi — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:10:20 +0000

Excellent video…very clear and easy to follow…and even fun. Thanks.

By: GCHE

GCHE — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:24:41 +0000

I spent alot of time trying to do this previously and this video saved my bacon.

In the footer.php? Geeze, no wonder I was so frustrated trying to get this ‘simple’ thing done!

Rock on guys!

By: Gregg

Gregg — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:58:50 +0000

That’s a great video presentation. Though it takes a while to load, the video is worth lot more ! Thanks for sharing !

By: terrydarc

terrydarc — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:28:39 +0000

I only understood this was a .org plugin after reading the comments even though I know that .org and .com are very different animals. Maybe it’d be clear if I went back through the video and listened more carefully.

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:26:46 +0000

Thank you Ryan

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:23:01 +0000

If you have several self-hosted blogs, you can track them using a single Google Analytics account, but you will have to create a new tracker for each one.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:11:19 +0000

Thank you for this great video. You made my day : )

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:24:58 +0000

Mike,

If you have several blogs with WP can you track them with just one account? or do you need to open different accounts with Google to do so?

By: Bayley

Bayley — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:36:21 +0000

Mate, at last!
An entertaining and well put together tutorial video for WordPress.
After months of wading through dry, unimaginative and, quite frankly, infuriatingly tedious videos I can do naught but applaud this video.
This is a far cry from the usual staple of straight-up filmed screens with a whiney voiceover.
Also, very informative in a helpfully direct manner.

Nicely done.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:15:09 +0000

Good job. Keep it up. This tutorial is better than the one on Youtube where I could NOT see where the code is added. Your instruction is very helpful. Thank you, Michael.

By: provenprospects

provenprospects — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:52:28 +0000

Good show mate j/k I’m just a yank, but I loved the video, keep up the great work, would love to have tutorials as slick as this for my own site!

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:42:26 +0000

Are you referring to a WordPress.org (self-hosted) blog, or a WordPress.com blog? The editor and plugin options are not available for WordPress.com blogs. If you're running into issues with a self-hosted blog, you might want to ask around the WordPress.org support forums.

By: paul

paul — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:02:27 +0000

My wordpress page doesn’t have an “editor” option NOR a “plug-in” option! What gives??? This is driving me crazy. They just are not on my dashboard. I want to use analytics!

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:12:18 +0000

All I wanted was to know how to install Google Analytics script. Got the answer in a flash. No hunting around a blog for an instruction. Just a simple show and tell. Great! Thank you.

By: mpcahn

mpcahn — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:32:46 +0000

That was, really solid. Thank you.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:09:00 +0000

Michael, your comment here makes me feel like I must not fully understand the WordPress.com stat program. I havent’ been able to find a way to track time on site based on referring domain, paths within the site or many other pieces of critical information–basically, all I see is X number of people went to Y page and Z number of people came from A domain. There doesn’t even seem to be a way to tie them together (that is, to know which pages were visited from which domains). Your comment about the popularity of this system has me hopeful that I just don’t know how to use it, since so many free stats programs offer those basics.

By: Patrik Nemes

Patrik Nemes — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:32:54 +0000

great tutorial…. thank you.

By: H.KILIC

H.KILIC — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:33:49 +0000

Thanks for tutorial. Good job Michael…

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:49:16 +0000

You can subscribe to the site’s RSS feed here: http://wordpress.tv/feed/

You can subscribe using Miro using the link on the home page of WordPress.tv (look below the featured area) if you prefer.

By: Jane Peters

Jane Peters — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:00:17 +0000

Thank you Michael. Is there a way I can subscribe to your tutorials. They save me so much time.

By: blog news

blog news — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:11:04 +0000

great video

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:44:49 +0000

In your theme, find the template file that contains the closing "body" tag. Insert the Analytics code just before that tag. If you need additional assistance, please visit the WordPress.org support forums.

By: nicolas

nicolas — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:34:47 +0000

What if I dont have a footer.php, on what file should i place code

Thanks

By: Todd Smith

Todd Smith — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:24:18 +0000

This was a very cool video production. Very well done and it helped through loading GA successfully.

Thanks for putting the time in!

By: julia ashley

julia ashley — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:40:54 +0000

Simple, step-be-step;
It was exactly what I needed.
Thank you!

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:38:17 +0000

For security reasons, users cannot add their own plugins to blogs hosted by WordPress.com. There's a support topic with more information available here.

By: Moabite

Moabite — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:49:09 +0000

Let me understand it 100%… I have a free wordpress blog. This means that I can not add any plugins to my blog?

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:14:10 +0000

Thank you! The music is royalty free stock from session musicians that I’ve pieced together rather than the work of a particular band or artist.

By: Dmitry Chebakov

Dmitry Chebakov — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:51:21 +0000

Big thanks for this great tutorial! Could you tell what music plays during the video, please?

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:25:09 +0000

Thanks! I use a combination of Screenflow (to capture the screen with), Final Cut Pro (editing, zooms, pans etc. – but these can be done with Screenflow), After Effects for graphics/animated elements and Soundtrack Pro/Ableton Live for audio. Hope that helps!

By: Francesca

Francesca — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:07:24 +0000

Thanks for the Video!!! Just getting our blog started (launching in the next day or two); and I had another question: What app/program are you using to capture the video of your screen like that? It is awesome the way you can zoom in and out etc. — Is that captured on the fly or are you adding zooms when editing? Thanks again for the helpful post; I was debating plugin vs. manual and didn’t know if I needed to constantly keep adding the Google code to new posts etc. — the footer is great!

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:39:18 +0000

Are you running a blog on your own server or using WordPress.com? WordPress.com doesn’t include the ability to edit the PHP code of themes (which you need to do to add javascript), just the CSS design they’re “wrapped” in. This is for security reasons.

By: MySportsCouch

MySportsCouch — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:16:43 +0000

Need some help. When I click on Appearance, there is no Editor Option under “Appearance”. There is Edit CSS, which looks a lot different and I do not see any of the theme files on the right so I do not see the footer.php.

By: Edward Palomo

Edward Palomo — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:49:34 +0000

Nice video tutorial over here!

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:45:07 +0000

Glad to have helped!

By: Gail

Gail — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:21:12 +0000

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I had been struggling with this task. It’s done and now I just have to wait for it to show up. I’ve used Analytics on html sites of mine, but never on a Blog so the video was extremely helpful and exactly what I needed.

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:51:00 +0000

Thanks. Zooming can be achieved in most screencasting and post production applications (Screenflow, Camtasia etc. for screencasting), Final Cut, After Effects, Premiere etc for post-production. In this case I use After Effects for animation and Final Cut (via Screenflow) for the screencasting parts

By: mariasx

mariasx — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:59:21 +0000

How Ted sayd, the video graphics are really great. But how did You do the Zoom in function? I really wonder how to enhance my tutorials with that function. Thanx for answer

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:40:24 +0000

You'll find an explanation here in the Codex

By: Amar

Amar — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:42:29 +0000

Thanks, this was very helpful and easy on the eyes! Cheers!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:34:59 +0000

Hi there. Your video is so great, step-by-step is awesome! But when I tried to paste the google analytics into the footer plug-in, it says “you need to make this file writable before you can save your changes. See the Codex for more information.” What do I do? Thank you!

By: Quentin

Quentin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:36:20 +0000

Nice tutorial and really appreciated the footer bit as I was putting it in the index or pages part.

By: Mehul Khatiwala

Mehul Khatiwala — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:58:23 +0000

Hey Michael thanks for this video. That will helpful to me a lot. Thanks again!

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By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:20:16 +0000

Thanks for the feedback and recommendation, Jason!

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:19:15 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. We’d welcome any alternate versions dealing with the same procedure – the focus here is on a beginners introduction/overview. However, a briefer video might make a nice addition. We accept video submissions directly via the contact form at the top of this page if that’s of interest

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:13:30 +0000

Thank you! WordPress.com stats are pretty handy for most of us – it’s the fifth most popular plugin for self-hosted WordPress blogs, in addition to being on every .com blog

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By: SEO India

SEO India — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:49:46 +0000

This is great idea starting with google analytics.Because we should know about how many visitors visited to our site.

By: sunsunich

sunsunich — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:18:42 +0000

thanks for help. guess wordpress stats will do for me.
the video is swell both graphic and informative-wise

By: Evgeni Stavinov

Evgeni Stavinov — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:07:24 +0000

Why the video on Google Analytics doesn’t load in Google Chrome browser.
Anybody else has this issue ?

Thanks

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:45:34 +0000

Yes, that’s one reason you might prefer to use a plugin. Different plugins will offer you different features and advantages. It’s worth giving a few a try to see what works best for you – the star ratings are also a good indication of what other users found most useful

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:39:32 +0000

Google Analytics can only be used on a self-hosted blog, rather than a WordPress.com hosted account. WordPress.com users have our built-in stats, though

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:38:05 +0000

Thanks, Ted. The graphical stuff was put together in After Effects mainly, with a goodly dash of inspiration from 50s classic modern.

By: Jean

Jean — Sat, 30 May 2009 06:20:06 +0000

Thanks very much. I too wanted to know about the footer part.
What is the advantage of using a plug in?

I guess it is that if you change theme the analytics code will move, too, but if you do it manually, it will have to be re-instated.

Is this right?

Many thanks

By: Arpit Shah

Arpit Shah — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:25:58 +0000

awesome.

By: mason

mason — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:17:27 +0000

This tute was painful to watch. You could cut the first minute and get a better video. Other than that, you could pretty much have conveyed this entire tute with three screenshots and a paragraph of text. Also, the tute is not valid for some non-default themes. (I.E., the place to insert the script is different).

By: Jason Pelker, Item-9 Consulting

Jason Pelker, Item-9 Consulting — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:47:02 +0000

Amazing video! Way better than I expected! BTW, I recommend the Google Analyticator plugin.

By: Jakub

Jakub — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:01:48 +0000

This is easy thing but it’s great tutorial for Beginners.

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:25:15 +0000

Wow! Great video. How did you do the graphics, Michael?!

By: Diego Soares

Diego Soares — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:36:42 +0000

Nice tutorial, now I can manage Analytics x WordPress together…

By: sunsunich

sunsunich — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:30:42 +0000

i wasn’t able to follow the tutorial

is it only for paid accounts?

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:25:41 +0000

Great tutorial – the footer.php bit was what I really needed to know. Thanks!