Author Topic: How to add Google Analytics to WordPress & Simple Machines Forum - The Easy Way (Read 1717 times)

Briggz5d · « **on:** December 27, 2011, 05:38 PM »

Website Administrators who know the value of Google Analytics will tell you that simply adding a Site-Counter to show information about how many users, Guests or Bots are currently browsing your pages and what they are looking - is Not enough.

OK fine - you've heard about Google analytics but haven't come around to use it or don't understand how it can help you run your website more efficiently. I say Take another look at it.

Since this post is about How to Add Google analytics to your SMF website, we'll get right to that without explaining all the features of Google analytics - But let me quickly say that Google Analytics provides the best detailed information about your site and its users - So detailed it could show you what your users had for breakfast and when they'll visit your site again lol

- Enough Jokes.

How to add Google Analytics to WordPress Blogs
WordPress With its Wide collection of Plugins does have a Google Analytics Plugin. See link below for specific installation and configuration instructions. Download / Install Google Analytics For WordPress

How to add Google Analytics To SMF
Users of Google analytics are required to Copy a code and past in the pages they want to be tracked by Google. However SMF users who do not like tampering with their page template code due to Fatal errors, or crashes in the past have nothing to worry about as they can now add Google Analytics without Manually editing their Page template.
How is this possible? - here's how:

Download and Install SMF Google Analytics Code 1.4 Mod Via SMF package manager(supports SMF 1.1.14, 1.1.15, 2.0 RC1-5, 2.0 Gold, 2.0.1
Register Or Login to your Google Analytics account at http://www.google.com/analytics And retrieve your google analytics account Code. Example UA-00000000-0.
Add You to SMF Admin Panel Features and options >>General And That's IT

Google Analytics will now have access to you site users data and show you reports you need to see: Mobile Visitors, Browsers, Operating systems, Country, Returning visitors, Bounce rate and a whole lot of other Adwords integration options.