Google Analytics
Add Google Analytics to WordPress
Adding Google Analytics to your WordPress site is quick and easy. If you’re familiar with using an FTP client like FileZilla you could copy/paste the code into your theme’s footer.php file just above the </body> tag. If you’re not familiar with FTP, WordPress gives you an easy to use them editor that will work in a pinch. In wp-admin and while logged in as an admin, go to appearance and then to editor. You should [...]
WordPress: Excluding yourself from Google Analytics reports
I hate it when I’m working hard on a site, going from page to page, and my clicks and such distort the Google Analytics reports. The clicks and page views themselves don’t do a whole lot but when you look at average time on site and average page views per visitor it will be completely out of whack. We need to exclude ourselves from the reports and we’ll use WordPress as an example. Excluding via [...]