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This article is about how to set up Google Anaytics to work on subsequent Blogger sites, if you have already set it up for your first blog or website. If you already have Google Analytics set up, then the process is a little different to setting it up for your first blog (which is nicely described by GreenLava over on BloggerSentral ) - because you already have a Google Analytics account, which you must add a new web property to. How to set up Google Analytics for a subsequent blog Log into Analytics using the Google Account which you use for Analytics overall (ie which you used for your other blogs or websites). Choose the Admin tab  (currently linked from near the right on the orange menu bar) From the drop-menu under Property , choose Create a New Property Choose Website (it's the default) Choose whether to use Universal Analytics (currently still beta) or Classic Analytics. (I've chosen Universal for the blog that I've just set up - will be interesting to see h...

This article explains why the proportion of "keyword not provided" visits to most websites is increasing, and gives you options for finding out what keywords people are searching for when they reach your blog. Why the percentage of not-provided search visits to your blog has increased If SEO is important for your blog , and if you therefore watch the Stats > Traffic Sources tab in your Blogger dashboard or your Google Analytics results, you'll probably have seen that proportion of your search-visitors whose keyword is "not provided" has gone up a lot recently, to be more-or-less 100% of your Google search traffic.   (In the Blogger Stats tab "not provided" isn't shown - but the number of visits per keyword is now massively less than the vists from Google.) This is no accident: Google is now witholding the keywords that people use, and (says that) this to protect your visitor's privacy. The issue has been widely discussed in sites like Search...

This article is about setting up Google Analytics on your blog in a way that includes data for AdSense clicks and behaviour. Google Analytics and Blogger. Analytics is Google's tool for measuring website performance:    how many visitors, how long do they stay for, what pages do they look at - and if you use AdSense, where are your earnings coming from. It's a major step up from Blogger's Statistics displays, and has far more details eg where the visitors came from, what browser they are using. When people first started using Analytics with Blogger, they followed the standard Analytics instructions to edit their template and add the tracking code to it. However if they switched to use a different template , the tracking code was lost unless they remembered to re-install it - and many people didn't remember. So some Google engineers started telling people to put the code into an HTML/Javascript widget instead, because widgets are kept through template changes. ...