How to add analytics to Your blog

Analytics is a way for you to measure the success of your site (blog ). You can not only see how many people visited your site but also where they came from, what browser and operating system they are using or what sire directed them to you as well as many other things. Analytics is a great tool for you to make informed decisions about your site. A few of my friend have ask me how to add Google Analytocs to thier Blogger Blog. It is really very simple.




1. First you sign up for an account with Google and go to the Analytics page



2. Submit your domain name http://www.blogger.com/yourblogsname

3. You will receive a tracking code. A short snippett of HTML code. Copy all of it. Note do not use the Legacy tracking Urchin.



4. Go to your blogger dashboard



5. Find the blog you want to add the Analytics code to a click the settings button





6. Then go to the Layout Tab at the top




7. The click the Edit HTML tab



8. Go to the bottom of the HTML text box and find the peoce of code that says



9. Paste the code between it and your tag



10 Wait 24 hours and you will start enjoying the never ending possibilities of Google Analytics.



Please let me know if this was helpful or not.

Social Media and the Church: The importance of Numbers

We have all heard the line "ministerially speaking" when referring to the number of people who attended a service at our church. I means we exaggerate the number to make it sound more impressive. Unfortunately when it comes to social media I need facts or something close to it. We want to know what is working and what is not. So today I am going to list the ways we keep up with my social networking stats and next week I will talk about what we do when things aren't working. 1. The biggest most popular and best way (in my opinion) to track stats is Google Analytics. You can't track everything with G.A but your blogs, your website and any other tool you use where you can control the code of the page. Analytics provides you with a huge range of tools that can not only tell you how many people visited your page but where they visited from, what browser they were using and there mother's maiden name (last one was made up). They have an awesome reporting system as well . I could go on and on about G.A but that is another post.


2. Twitter Analyzer: A twitter tool that will let you know everything you need to know about your account to make sure it is effective.


3. Card Comments: We pass out little connection cards every week and one question it is"where did you hear about us". I keep track of everyone who came from the web.


4. General feedback: I ask people what they think of the social media we use. I ask people what they get the most out of. I ask people how they like to communicate. Because I want to know what tools people are using so I can communicate better.


5. Sign ups online- I judge how well an online camping is communicating to the people within my church by how many of them sign up online rather than sign up physically at the church.


What ways do you you use to see how well your social media is working?