Week 10 - Weebly Website

Recently I created a website at weekly.com for a project in my class. The purpose of the project is for analytical reasons as well as good tips and suggestions for websites. If you want to check out my website it is fordmuscle.weebly.com, featuring the automotive company Ford and their creations.
This blog will be covering how to link Google Analytics to a Weebly account.

Before I linked google analytics to my website I wanted to cover some of the basic areas.
First in the website creation it is important to have a clever and catchy home page. It needs to be inviting to the users. Next, I created a page for users to comment, share, or ask questions. A tip that was given was to redirect a user to a thank you page after submitting the form. Also I had created a simple page on the Ford Mustang. After messing around with the website I finally felt that it was time to link it to Google Analytics.

The linkage between the website and Google Analytics is fairly easy. First you have to go into Google Analytics Admin page. From there you will go and create a new property. When creating a new property to track Google will have you fill out some information regarding the website it is going to be tracking. After filling out the information Google will give you a tracking number and code.

You will want to copy the tracking code and go back to your weekly website. Once logged into the weekly account you will want to select "edit site". At the top of the page you will see multiple links, "Build, Design, Pages, Store, Settings", you will want to select Settings. You will then be redirected to the settings page where there will be a few options on the right hand sidebar. You will want to click on SEO. Then you will see an area for header and footer. You will want to past the Google Analytics code into either one of these sections. Entering this code into the header or footer section will then add the code to every page the website has. Now the bridge between Google Analytics and Weebly has been created.

You can go into the Google Analytics account and see the daily activity the website is experiencing, set up goals, and even see where your views are coming from. I hope this helps if you are looking to link Google Analytics to your weekly account. If you have any questions please ask and don't forget to checkout my website! Fordmuscle.weebly.com
-STURCO