Skip to main content

Featured Post

6 Reasons why KDP is Better than Payhip for Authors

Are you struggling in deciding between KDP and Payhip for your book selling? The short answer for you is KDP. This article will tell you why KDP is more appropriate for a writer, ebook writers, than Payhip. Well, another reader may be asking "what is your position to say so?" No problem. I have experiences in using both for a long period so I have a good position to inform you about this. Defining KDP and Payhip KDP KDP, as you may have known, stands for Kindle Direct Publishing. It is the Amazon e-book self-publishing platform that was launched in November 2007. It helps independent publishers to publish and sell their e-books and paperbacks to the world. KDP does not publish and selll all submitted books, by the way. The submissions will be reviewed for at least 24-72 hours before they are decided whether to publish or not. All books published and sold with KDP are charged from $0.09 to $200.00, depends on the length, size, and type of the book. To put it ano...

A Guide to Google Analytics for Bloggers

Google tracking ID is a feature offered by Google Analytics to help many people, especially bloggers, to monitor the progress of their blog. So, what is Google Analytics? Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic, currently as a platform inside the Google Marketing Platform brand.

Google Analytics logo

All writers and bloggers want their achievements to be accurately measured. For example, you want to know how to find out the number of visitors to your blog, how long visitors visit your blog, what about the bounce rate of visits to your blog, from which country visitors to your blog, and with what device they access your blog, and so on. You can get all this information through Google Analytics.

Hot Post: How to Safely Remove Unwanted JS and CSS Scripts from Blogger Template

We think, there is no blogger who does not expect their blog to be well monitored. In fact, if you are a serious blogger, monitoring the progress of visits to your blog is something that cannot be ignored. By monitoring the progress of visits to your blog, you can consider what strategic steps you need to take to increase the number of visits to your blog.

The requirements for Google Analytics to be able to monitor your blog are very easy, especially if you use the Blogger platform. All you need is a Tracking ID that has been provided by Google Analytics itself. This article will show you how to use Google Analytics so that you can connect your blog with Google Analytics.

How to Get Google Analytic Tracking ID UA-XXXXXXXXX-X quickly

Getting a Tracking ID from Google Analytics is easy. All you need is to log into the Google Analytics website using the same Gmail account you use on your blog. This will make it easier for you to verify that you are the owner of the blog.

After you have successfully logged into Google Analytics, go to the Admin menu where you can add your property. Your property in this case is your blog. Enter your property name, select your time zone and currency.

Adding property to Google Analytics by adding your blog name, selecting time zone, and currency. However, you also need to enable advanced options.

Especially for you bloggers, you should know how to get a tracking ID for bloggers or how to get a tracking ID UA-XXXXXXXXX-X because recently Google made a few changes (Google Analytics 4) so that the tracking ID format UA-XXXXXXXXXX-X is no longer the tracking ID default format.

So that you can get Tracking ID tracking ID UA-XXXXXXXXX-X, then you must select Show Advanced Options and activate the Create a Universal Analytics Property option and select Create a Universal Analytics Property Only. That's how you can get Tracking ID UA-XXXXXXXXX-X for your blog.

Advanced option in Google Analytics will give you UA-XXXXXXXXX-Xtracking ID

After you press the Next button, you will get your Tracking ID in UA-XXXXXXXXX-X format which is ready to be placed in your blog.

If there is a property verification process, it will be very easy because you are using the same Gmail account as your blog. Now, consider how to link your blog with Google Analytics.

Read also: The Right Property Type for BlogSpot in GSC

How to Connect your blog to Google Analytics

How to connect a blog with Google Analytics is very easy. All you need to do is go to your blogger dashboard and select Settings.

In the Basic section, you will see a Google Analytics Property ID option. Clicking on that option will display a dialog box asking you to enter the Tracking ID that you got from Google Analytics. You need to remember that Blogger only accepts Tracking ID UA-XXXXXXXXX-X.

After entering your Tracking ID code, click Save. Congratulations! Your blog is connected to Google Analytics. Now, you can visit the Google Analytics website and do some basic settings and monitor the progress of visits to your blog regularly.

That's an easy way to get Tracking ID UA-XXXXXXXXX-X and connect your blog with Google Analytics. Hopefully this article is useful. If you have successfully connected your blog with Google Analytics, please leave your blog address in the comments column below this article so we can visit your blog. Thus, you can see an increase in your blog's visitor statistics curve in Google Analytics.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

All Important Meta Tags for Blogger SEO

All Important Meta Tags for Blogger SEO - Using HTML tags properly and correctly will determine the SEO of a blog, especially those using Blogger. If in the previous article I discussed all the important HTML tags for SEO, this time I continue the discussion about how to use Meta tags for SEO and how to add Meta tags in BlogSpot properly and correctly . What is a Meta tag? According to Joshua Hardwick, the Head of Content at Ahrefs, Meta tags are snippets of code that tell search engines important information about your web page, such as how they should display it in search results. They also tell web browsers how to display it to visitors. Meta tags are not displayed in the browser as text but work to determine what elements should be displayed, how they should be displayed, and what search engines should do with a blog. Errors in setting Meta tags on a blog can affect the performance of the blog and reduce the chances of it being found in ...

Adsterra Ads not Showing Up? Solved!

Adsterra Ads not Showing Up - Your Adsterra ads not showing up on your blog? Here is why and how to solve the problem. This issue often occurs when someone install a new template. However, the problem is not merely on the template. It could be that you misplaced the ad codes, or the template does not support the method that the ad codes implement. Why Adsterra Ads are not Showing There are several reason why you can’t see Adsterra ads on your page. Sometimes, some ads appear somewhere in your blog but the other ads just not showing up. My Adsterra ads also not showing up recently. It showed in the header and footer but it didn’t appear in the post, page, and sidebar. You misplaced the ad codes Adsterra has several ad types like popunder, vast, direct link, and ads in six different sizes. The popunder ad must be placed right in the blogger template under the <head> tag. If you put the popunder ad code in the other places, it is likely that the ad will not...

How to Increase BlogSpot Loading Speed?

If you're a blogger on the BlogSpot platform, you may have noticed that your site can sometimes load slowly, which can negatively impact user experience and SEO rankings. Fortunately, there are several steps you can take to increase your BlogSpot loading speed. Optimize your images One of the main culprits of slow loading times is large images. Make sure to compress your images before uploading them to your blog, and consider using a tool like Smush.it to further optimize them. Use a fast and lightweight template The template you choose can have a big impact on your blog's loading speed. Look for a template that is lightweight and optimized for speed. Avoid templates that are overly complex or have a lot of unnecessary features. Minimize JavaScript and CSS files Large JavaScript and CSS files can also slow down your site's loading speed. Minimize these files by using a tool like Minify, which combines multiple files into a single, s...