Free Webinar: Learn How To Setup Google Analytics in Wordpress

May 11th, 2010 in Featured by Adria @freshworkshops
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Have you been wanting to install Google Analytics in Wordpress but weren’t sure how?

This free webinar will show you how to get Google Analytics installed so you can start understanding your visitor traffic!

Level: 101
Time: 1 hour
Location: Online
Great For: People who have a self-hosted Wordpress install and want to track their visitors. You can also benefit if you have a regular website or blog running on another platform.

Outline

  • Register a Google Analytics account
  • Go through adding it to Wordpress via a plugin and by editing a Wordpress theme
  • Do a short tour of the Google Analytics dashboard

Notes: You will need to setup a Google Analytics account (It’s free) before the workshop starts. Video instructions compliments of Conversation Marketing

Detailed Outline

  1. Intro
  2. Wordpress as a Content Management System
  3. Why tracking visitor traffic can grow your business
  4. Overview of inserting Google Analytics code into Wordpress theme
  5. Connecting to your Wordpress site via FTP
  6. Navigating to the Templates directory
  7. Text editors for Wordpress and the new built in editor in Wordpress 2.8
  8. Adding Google Analytics Code to Wordpress via FTP
  9. Adding Google Analytics Code to Wordpress via the Plugin
  10. Testing your Google Analytics Code
  11. Troubleshooting
  12. Questions and Answers

Format

The format will be a live screenshare with phone conference where you will participate as we do a quick overview of Wordpress and Google Analytics before diving in and adding the code. Attendees will be able to get remote help and ask questions about Wordpress and Google Analytics.

What you need to attend

  1. Access to your email account
  2. Internet connected computer
  3. Computer speakers
  4. Long Distance or Skype – (you can use Skype’s monthly $3 plan)
  5. A Google Analytics account. How to setup a Google Analytics Account in 5 minutes
  6. FTP access to your Wordpress install. We will be editing the template to include your Google Analytics code so you need to have your FTP client, like Filezilla, ready to go.

Webinar Goal

This webinar is focused on providing hands on experience in setting up Google Analytics and answering key questions about editing Wordpress themes. We will also cover resources for learning how to interpret Google Analytics traffic.

If this sounds like something you want to learn about, sign up!

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