How to Integrate Your WordPress with Google Analytics

Do you know who is visiting your website? Do you know how long people are staying on your website? Today we show you how easy it is to create a Google Analytics account and integrate into your WordPress website. The need to know who, what, when and how are very important questions that need to be answered for your website to be successful. Getting that data is the first crucial part. Website - http://bit.ly/2movgwN Twitter - http://bit.ly/2nG01h1 Facebook - http://bit.ly/2mPVB2R Instagram - http://bit.ly/2nvNSL6 Short Transcript Today on UV Design Tips and Tricks, we show you how to integrate WordPress and Google Analytics. Hey, what's going on everyone? My name's Carl, co-owner of UV Design and on this channel, we show you tips and tricks on creating websites and hosting, tips and tricks for hosting solutions. Mondays, we release WordPress and, well not just WordPress but any website design integration, so Adobe Muse, WordPress, HTML, understanding the fundamentals of designing a website because different protocols, different websites are needed for everyone. Not everyone needs WordPress. Not everyone needs Muse. Not everyone needs static pages. So that's what we do on Mondays. And on Wednesdays, we do hosting, VPS servers, cPanel, shared hosting environments, understanding those questions and getting those figured out for you. So on today, we're going to show you how to integrate Google Analytics to your WordPress site. I have seen a lot of people with WordPress that do not have any analytics associated with it and they count on their hosting provider to provide that data for them. cPanel does have an integrated system for that. It works but you're limited to what you can do with that data. I mean, yes, you can look at it but then it's harder to analyze that. So today, we're going to show you how to get Google Analytics, set that up real quick, and then integrate that to your WordPress site. It's pretty easy, and with that analytics, you can see a lot of in-depth information about your website, who's going to your website, how long people are staying on your website, all that fun stuff. And we'll cover more of that later, but again, today, we're just gonna show you that integration. So we go to Google, we go to Google Analytics. You're gonna see analytics.google.com, you click on that and it brings you, well, it might take you to another part where it talks about signing in. You'll sign in at the right-hand corner. They have different services, Data Studio, Tag Manager, bunch of other neat stuff, but again, go and choose Analytics. Again, yours probably won't look exactly like this. These are some of the sites I manage for some people. And now, you want to go ahead and add a new site to this. So this is the Dashboard on the left-hand side here. This is always gonna be the same. This is where you see your audiences and what they're doing on your site and a bunch of neat information. Let's go and click Admin. And up here in Account, you're going to go ahead and Create new account. Account Name. So let's say you were managing a place, let's just say, I don't even know, a place with multiple locations. So let's just say a local pizza shop and they have five locations. So the Account Name would be the overall account of that particular client of yours or of your own location. So if you have multiple locations in the same spot, you're not going to want to set up individual accounts. One account for the entire business itself. Again, we're doing this, we're doing fix it in post films, so we're just gonna call it that. And because I'm not having multiple locations, website, my website name. So if you have individual websites for individual locations, this is where you put that in there. So let's say maybe one's located in Iowa, one's located in Minnesota, one's located in Illinois, each have different websites, you're gonna put that specific website name there. Go ahead and copy this bad boy from there. I kind of do things the hard roundabout way but it is what it is. Industry Category, just pick something that's close to yours. Arts and Entertainment is what we do. Pick your timezone. I keep all this stuff checked. You can go through it to see if you don't want it checked, that's you to you. Get Tracking ID, and I accept Google's terms. You can read that on your own if you like. And then bam, now you just set up your own analytics for your website. So let's start tracking. Now, it doesn't start tracking until you put this ID onto your website 'cause your website needs to know where to push that data to. So basically, you've told Analytics what your website is but you need to now tell your website where to push that data to. This is your Tracking ID. So you can go ahead and copy that. Go back here to WordPress.