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How to setup Google Analytics with Hubpages:Screenshots Tutorial

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By shailini



Google Analytics (http://analytics.google.com) is a web service from Google that measures traffic to a webpage or blog. You can exactly see how many people visit your blog, where they come from, how often they come, what they click on your site and how they exit your site. But, you won't be able to identify them personally (Thank God!); you will only get anonymous information aggregated in different measures.

In this hub, I will show why you need to set up Google Analytics for your Hub pages and how to setup Google Analytics with an easy step-by-step tutorial.

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Setting up Google Analytics with Hubpages

Visit http://analytics.google.com to create a new free account for Google Analytics. If you have a Google/Gmail user id, you can use it to login straight away. When you sign in, you will land up in the “Analytics Settings” page. Follow the screenshots if the instructions are nto clear. Click on each screenshot picture to enlarge to a larger size.

Look for “Add Website Profile »” [Track another website with Analytics] option, Create a new website profile.

Type in hupages.com (do not type in your profile ID or any specifc hub pages URL). Just hubpages.com is enough.

You need not change the time zone. Click “Continue” to go to the next screen.

On the next screen, you will see a “Tracking code” window. Do not worry about copying the code. Look for the tracking code which will be in this format “UA-XXXXXX-XX”. Copy this tracker code without double quotes. Click Finish and exit from Google Analytics.

Now, go back to Hubpages à My Account page. Click on “Affiliate Settings” and you will see “Analytics” field just below the ebay field. Paste the UA-XXXXXX-XX without any quotes or double quotes. Your Google Analytics tracker code will be automatically saved and your tracking will begin within 24 hours.

Leave a day or two and then log in to your Google Analytics account to see your hubs traffic information. That’s all, isn’t that simple?

How to add Google Analytics: Screenshots Tutorial

How does Google Analytics work?

When you join Google Analytics and get your unique tracking code, whenever you embed that code into a blog or a website, you are telling Google to track that blog or site for you. When you copy and paste the "tracker code" in the Hub pages Account page, all your hub pages that you have and the new hubs that you are creating will be embedded with the unique tracking code and Google will track the hub pages. Google Analytics has an extensive range of features that measure traffic, source, browser behaviours that might help you to improve your blog or website.

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solarshingles profile image

solarshingles  says:
2 years ago

Thanks, Shailini! Google Analytics is certainly one of the most useful software for controlling the traffic on any web site.

eswar profile image

eswar  says:
2 years ago

That's nice information.Google analytics certainly prove to be very essential for every website owner, to trace out the returns for all that efforts they made in their website.Thanks again shalini.

shailini profile image

shailini  says:
2 years ago

thanks a lot people

SweetiePie profile image

SweetiePie  says:
2 years ago

Thanks for the advice Shailini.

Anamika S profile image

Anamika S  says:
2 years ago

Great Hub Shalini, You made it all so simple. I just added Google Analytics.

megasuite profile image

megasuite  says:
16 months ago

This is good info - thanks!

Shadesbreath profile image

Shadesbreath  says:
14 months ago

Interesting. I might have figured this out finally. Thanks... (you should point out people need to click on the "Legacy" option that comes up though... the default screen I got was something else and there was no UA-xxxxx etc).

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LouiseKnittel  says:
14 months ago

I am so greatfull that I found this Hub. I have been wondering about this for some time. And now I have it up and running in no time! Thumbs up!

Dorsi profile image

Dorsi  says:
14 months ago

Thanks- setting up Google Analytics doesn't look so intimidating now. I wanted to set it up but was delaying doing it because it seemed so complicated.

Great hub!

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sixtyorso  says:
14 months ago

Great interesting informative hub

dollnasian profile image

dollnasian  says:
13 months ago

thanks for posting this, it was very informative!

fatheadfred  says:
11 months ago

thanks for the information, I was looking forever for this.

Peter Dickinson profile image

Peter Dickinson  says:
8 months ago

Brilliant. That was a huge help.

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my-success-guru  says:
8 months ago

Very smart way to run yor Hubs!

Wishing You Health, Wealth and Happiness!

Bye

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ricky develo  says:
7 months ago

Excellent tutorial - thanks for the help!

eartha profile image

eartha  says:
6 months ago

Just what I was looking for and easy to understand. Thanks!

squirli profile image

squirli  says:
6 months ago

Thanks a lot, nice clear instructions and very helpful!

Temperance M profile image

Temperance M  says:
6 months ago

Thanks for this excellent tutorial! Saved me from pulling my hair out over something that turned out so simple!

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Maverick_999  says:
6 months ago

awesome article, thanks for sharing

jakyas profile image

jakyas  says:
6 months ago

Superb tutorial. Very helpful.Thanx.

blaise25 profile image

blaise25  says:
5 months ago

thanks for your helpful hub ;p

Info Provider profile image

Info Provider  says:
4 months ago

thanks now it works

finsofts profile image

finsofts  says:
4 months ago

Thanks for this great info and this will help a lot of users of hubpages thanks again

ajparker profile image

ajparker  says:
3 months ago

Thanks for the how-to. I was a little stuck because I wondered if I needed to specify a page, or if just the domain was enough. Thanks again.

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bmtphoenix  says:
3 months ago

Ditto ajparker, seemed counter-intuitive to not include a page name but, hey, whatever works.

Gameboy70  says:
3 months ago

Hi Shailini,

I'm new to Hubpages, coming from a self-hosted Wordpress blog, and HP's simplicity was making its setup difficult for me. I kept thinking, "Where do I embed the GA tracking code?"

Your dummy-proof article cleared things up instantly. Thanks for helping me get started!

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