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How To Install Google Analytics

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:44:38 +0000

One of the main keys to a successful website or blog is knowing how much and where your overall traffic is coming from. Having this information at your fingertips will allow you to experiment with different traffic techniques and see which one works the best and then capitalize on it. Without knowing your website statistics you will have no idea what traffic techniques are working and which are not, making it harder to improve your campaign!

Google Analytics, a free service offered by Google, keeps track of your website statistics for you, allowing you to keep track of where your visitors are coming from so that you can adjust your traffic techniques and marketing campaign accordingly.

How To Install Google Analytics

Installing Google Analytics is not all that difficult. It requires the understanding of some web code, but if you follow the steps below you should have no problem getting it installed on your website or blog.

Step 1: Go to the Google Analytics website http://www.google.com/analytics/

Step 2: Sign up for a Google analytics account.

- Click on the Sign Up Now link underneath New to Google Analytics

- If you have a Google account sign in. If you don’t click set up a Google account and follow the steps.

*If you have an account with google analytics sign in by clicking the Access Analytics button on the right side of the homepage.

Step 3: Create a New Account

- Once signed into Google there should be a screen that pops up asking you to enter your website address.

- Enter your Web address, A name for your account, your Country and time zone

- Click Continue

- Fill in your name, phone number(not required), other info

- Click Continue

- Agree to the terms and conditions and click Create New Account

Step 4: Add Google Analytics Code To Your Site

- Google will then give you code that needs to be pasted into your site so that they can track your statictics

- Copy all of the code in the box

- If you have a website paste the code in between the tags, most people paste it towards the bottom, but the code is for Google’s purposes only it will not be seen on your site so as long as it is before the tag you are good.

- If you have a Wordpress blog sign in to your dashboard –> Appearance –> Editor –> footer.php Next, paste the code anywhere inbetween the tags, but it must be before tag. Click save when done pasting and that is it.

Step 5: Sign In To Google Analytics Account

- You should see your new account set up, There will be a yellow caushion symbol under status this means Google did not reconize your site yet, this may take a couple hours or days then it should change to active after it reconizes your site. When it is active you will be able to see your site statistics!

- If for some reason after a couple days it still does not reconize your site I would suggest contacting Google anaylitic support.

Step 6: Install Google Analytics Complete! Congradulations!

Wordpress Google Analytics Plugin

If you have a Wordpress blog you can download the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin, which automatically tracks for blog statistics for you without having to paste code. This plugin is very easy to install just download the file and save it to your wp-content/plugins folder and you are all set!

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Krista

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How To Stop Comment Blog Spam

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:05:17 +0000

Everybody hates SPAM! And no i am not talking about the processed canned meat, however canned meat does not sound that appetizing. What I am talking about is the annoying comments that are automatically posted to your blog that just contain a bunch links promoting commercial services. If you own a Wordpress blog and have the comments enabled, which is something I highly recommend, then you are bound to get spammy comments! However, I have Good News for you! There is a way to prevent comment and contact form spam…

How To Combat Comment Spam:

There are two great Wordpress plugins you can download to your Wordpress blog that will take care of your Spam problems:

1.) WP-SpamFree

WP-Spam Free is an extremely powerful WordPress anti-spam plugin that eliminates blog comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. This is a Free Wordpress plugin that I use along with Akismet, which I will get into later. It works invisibly without CAPTCHA’s, challege questions or other inconveniences to your site visitors. The plugin includes spam-free contact form feature as well. It virtually elimantes automated comment spam send out from bots.

*Download the latest version of WP-SpamFree

2.) Akismet

Akismet, on of the most popular Wordpress plugins, is a spam filtering service, which filters link spam from blog comments and spam trackback pings. You may have noticed when you look your plugins menu that you already have Akismet installed in your Wordpress blog, this is because it is highly recommend that you activate and use it! However, you must activate the plugin in order for it to work!

*If for some reason you do not have the Akismet plugin you can Download the latest version HERE

How to Activate Akismet

1.) In your Plugins menu you must press activate next to the Akisment plugin

2.) You will need a API key: Every user of Wordpress.com automatically gets a API key (*Note you do not want to share this key with anyone!)

- To find your API key simply go to your dashboard -> click users ->Your Profile

- You should see a sentance that says ” your Wordpress.com API key is ” where your key is the 12 numbers following

- You can see your key at http://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/profile.php

3.) If you do not have a wordpress account and still want to use Akismet you can register on Wordpress.com and obtain a API key!

4.) once you have a API key and you activated Akismet then you need to go to plugins-> Akismet-> Configuration and enter your API key and that is it you are all set!

*For any Questions regarding Akismet you can go HERE!

Combat Contact Form Spam:

There are two great Wordpress plugins you can download to help combat Contact Form Spam

1.) Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form v.2.0WP

The Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form plugin for Wordpress is one of the best, most accessible, spam proof contact forms out there. This plugin allows you to add a spam proof contact form to a wordpress page or a template. It is fully customisable with CSS, and even has a few themes contained to get you started.

2.) cforms II

The cforms II plugin for Wordpress offers convenient deployment of multiple contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page. It also allows you to customize the messages, the fields that are required, the email addresses to be used, and even create different contact forms to be used in different locations of the site. The cforms II allows for spam-free environment and is relatively easy to customize.

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Krista

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