Enabling Google Analytics

Here are the full set of steps for enabling Google Analytics on your blog:

1. Log in to the administrative dashboard of your blog.
2. Click on the Plugins link on the right hand side of the banner.
3. Click “Activate” to the right of the line with “Google Analytics.”
4. Go to http://www.google.com/analytics/
5. Click the “Access Analytics” button.
6. Click “Add New Profile” in the banner to the right of “Website Profiles.”
7. Enter the URL of your blog. The “http://” is already supplied, so enter e.g. “websites.umass.edu/username”.
8. Click Finish.
9. Select the string that looks like UA-#######-# and copy it.
10. Now go back to the admin pages of your blog and click on “Settings” in the banner.
11. Click on “Ultimate GA” in the line just below the banner.
12. The box labeled “Account ID” should now have that same number in it, but if it doesn’t, you can paste it in now.
13. Click “Update Options.”
14. After some people have visited your blog, which for me takes a loooong time, you can go back to Google Analytics and click “View report” in the line next to where your blogs website is displayed. This wil take you to the report for your blog and you can see how much activity your blog has seen.