In today’s article, we will learn to “Setup Google Analytics Account” and link it with our WordPress website.
Setup Google Analytics Account:
Google, the search engine giant gives you free access to its analytics tool named Google Analytics which enables you to track the activity of your website visitors.
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There are various ways to link Analytics account to your website. We will study the easiest way of doing it via Yoast SEO Plugin.
As we know Yoast SEO is a free plugin which comes with your WordPress website in the Plugin section.
Let’s Learn to link Google Analytics with your website using Yoast SEO Plugin:
Open your WordPress website Admin panel using www.yourdomainname.com/wp-admin
Enter the Login Credentials
On the Dashboard click on the Plugin section and search for Yoast SEO Plugin
Google Analytics Plugin
Log in your Gmail account or create a new one if you do not have one already
It will redirect you to Gmail if you have not Logged-in yet otherwise you will be asked to create your Analytics account
Generating Tracking ID
You will be getting your tracking ID in the next page and a HTML code
Copy the tracking ID and move back to your website dashboard
Tracking ID Generated
Open the Plugin window
Paste the Tracking Code
Hit the save changes option
It usually takes 24 – 48 hours to complete the linking process.
Once the Linking process is done you can analyze the website performance and can work on the weak parameters at which your website is losing ranking in Search Engine search results.