{"id":315,"date":"2018-06-07T17:50:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T23:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/?p=315"},"modified":"2018-06-26T13:07:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T19:07:25","slug":"how-to-add-google-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"How to add your own Google Analytics account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Website Pro has a built-in dashboard that displays highlights\u00a0of your site&#8217;s visitor information using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/analytics\/\">Google Analytics.<\/a>\u00a0However, we understand that you may want to dig deeper using your own account. That&#8217;s why Website Pro provides an easy way to do just that.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Plugins meant to support Google Analytics are available, but these often fail to track gather data in the Website Pro environment.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>How to add your own Google Analytics account:<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/analytics.google.com\/analytics\/web\/\">Sign up<\/a> for Google Analytics and configure it for your site, or just log in if you&#8217;ve already completed that step.<\/li>\n<li>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/6132368\">Admin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Select your site&#8217;s account from the menu in the <em>ACCOUNT<\/em> column<\/li>\n<li>Select a property from the menu in the <em>PROPERTY<\/em> column<\/li>\n<li>Under\u00a0<em>PROPERTY<\/em>, click\u00a0<strong>Tracking Info &gt; Tracking Code<\/strong>. Your\u00a0<a class=\"glossary-term\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/7372977\" data-answer=\"7372977\" data-stats-ve=\"40\">tracking ID<\/a>\u00a0is displayed at the top of the page<\/li>\n<li>Copy that Tracking ID<\/li>\n<li>Sign into to your Website Pro site&#8217;s WordPress admin panel<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to\u00a0<strong>Settings &gt; General Code<\/strong>\u00a0and scroll to the bottom<\/li>\n<li>Paste that Tracking ID into the\u00a0<strong>Custom Google Analytics Tracking ID<\/strong> and click <strong>Save Changes<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Please keep in mind that this ID will run concurrently with Website Pro&#8217;s built-in analytic tracking, which will remain on the Website Pro dashboard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-328\" src=\"https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smaller_GA_tracking_id-1-1024x793.png\" alt=\"Under &quot;Settings &gt; General&quot; you can enter a Google Analytics Tracking ID connected to your own Google Analytics Account.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smaller_GA_tracking_id-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smaller_GA_tracking_id-1-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smaller_GA_tracking_id-1-768x595.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Pro has a built-in dashboard that displays highlights\u00a0of your site&#8217;s visitor information using\u00a0Google Analytics.\u00a0However, we understand that you may want to dig deeper using your own account. That&#8217;s why Website Pro provides an easy way to do just that. Note: Plugins meant to support Google Analytics are available, but these often fail to track [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.marketingservices.dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}