How to Add Google Analytics to Wordpress (In 3 Easy Steps)

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Connecting Google Analytics to your website is essential in order to find out important information like how many people are coming to your website and where they are coming from. In this tutorial I will walk you through how to add Google Analytics to your WordPress website in 3 easy steps using Google Analytics for WordPress plugin by MonsterInsights.

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This post is a part of a series of posts on How to Start a Blog that I have created to help simplify the process of setting up your WordPress site.

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Step 1: Set up your Google Analytics account for your website

Go to Google Analytics and create an account. Click on Analytics from the main menu and then click sign up.

Click Sign up and follow the steps to get your tracking code.

When you create an account in Google Analytics you will get a tracking ID that will then be added to your website to track your website visitors.

Complete the following items and click on Get Tracking ID.

Account Name: (you can have more than one website on an account)
Website Name
Website URL
Industry Category
Time Zone
Data Sharing Settings

You will need to accept Google Analytics Terms of Service and then you will be taken to the Google Analytics Dashboard where you can find your tracking ID.

Step 2: Easily connect Google Analytics to your website using a plugin.

Don’t want to mess with code? No problem! Login into WordPress and install the plugin Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights to easily connect your website to Google Analytics.

After you activate the plugin you can find the settings in the left hand menu in the WordPress dashboard labelled Insights.

In the general tab click on Authenticate with your Google account.

You will need to allow MonsterInsights to access your website data.

The plugin will prompt you to pick a profile. If you just created your google analytics account then you will only have one profile visible.

Once completed you will see your tracking code visible within MonsterInsights settings and you will have officially added Google Analytics to your WordPress website. Congratulations!! See that was easy!

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Step 3: Enable Demographics and Interest Reports to learn important metrics about your audience

Last step, go into your Google Analytics dashboard and enable the demographics and interest reports. Select property settings from the menu.

Scroll down to Advertising Features and click to enable demographics and interest reports and then Click Save at the bottom.

Demographics and Interest reports give you information like age, gender and various interest categories related to your audience.

Next, in the left hand menu select Audience > Demographics > Overview. This is where you will find your demographics reports. In order to use this feature you need to enable the advertising feature. Select enable and then your demographics and interest reports will be all set up. Note: It can take up to 24 hours before you start seeing data.

Now rest easy knowing that Google Analytics is set up and ready to start tracking data for your website.

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Hi! I'm Tricia the founder of Blog Her Way. I teach aspiring bloggers how to set up their website + grow their email list to start earning income online.