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Damon
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Dec 21, 2005, 11:10 AM
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Tutorial: Add Google Analytics to Article Manager
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You probably have heard all about Google Analytics, Google's new free web stats utility. It's been so popular I wanted to share with Article Manager users some steps on how you can integrate it into your installation Article Manager to generate stats on your published pages.
Here are the steps that are really quite simple:
1. First, sign up for a Google Analytics account (http://www.google.com/analytics/sign_up.html). Google has experienced such huge demand for the service, that you will have to be placed on a waiting list first, but it is worth the wait.
2. Now it might take some time to get your account, but once you've received it, log in to your Google Analytics account and add a website profile. Your unique JavaScript tracking code will then be generated.
3. You'll want to paste the JavaScript tracking code on each web page you want to track immediately before the </body> tag. To track pages published by Article Manager, you simply add the JavaScript code into the templates then re-publish all your pages (using the Publish All button in the Article Manager Setup Options).
Here is an example of the code you would add:
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js"
type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct="UA-xxxx-x";
urchinTracker();
</script>
* UA-xxxx-x is were you enter you would enter your unique tracking code.
4. Here is a list of the Article Manager templates to which you will add the tracking code:
/templates/article/default.html
/templates/article/default_printer.html
/templates/index/default.html
/templates/search/advanced_search.html
/templates/search/search_results.html
If you've created any custom templates for any of your categories or search queries you'll want to add the code to those as well.
Once you've added the code, log into Article Manager, go to the Setup Options, and re-publish by clicking the "Publish All" button. :)
5. Finally, log into Google Analytics to view the reporting status for your site. It usually takes a little while for Google to generate the reports the first time (at least 24 hours).
If you have any questions, please let me know, I'll be happy to help! :)
Some useful links:
Google Analytics Help Center https://www.google.com/support/analytics
Google Analytics Forum http://groups.google.com/group/analytics-help
Cheers
Damon Edis
interactivetools.com
(This post was edited by Damon on Dec 21, 2005, 4:31 PM)
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jcamp
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Dec 22, 2005, 4:01 AM
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Re: [Damon] Tutorial: Add Google Analytics to Article Manager
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Although the Google Analytics is brilliant (surprise surprise...) it is generally grossly oversubscribed. However web stats are really useful. Do you know of any other 'free' services that do a similar job? Even if they are not so effective, having something is always better than nothing.
If you do perhaps you could post the site and code insert so that we could all benefit. Perhaps a new feature in the up and coming new release of article manager...?
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Cliff
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Dec 22, 2005, 3:11 PM
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Hi jcamp,
A few other users were passing around ideas over in this thread here. You may be able to find an alternative over there if you are looking for one.
Regards,
Cliff Stefanuk - Customer Service Manager
support@interactivetools.com
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fraser_cain
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Mar 29, 2006, 10:08 AM
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Make sure you add the Analytics code to the bottom of your pages, not the top. It makes people load about 40K of Javascript. If there's a problem with Google, your web pages will just hang.
Fraser Cain
interactivetools.com alumni
Publisher, Universe Today (http://www.universetoday.com)
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bbenjamin
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Apr 1, 2006, 8:01 AM
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 I just got my code - the wait was less than a month.
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Andres
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Apr 12, 2006, 9:08 PM
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You are lucky. I wating for code in three months or more.
Andres
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elderban
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Aug 27, 2006, 6:26 PM
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I got mine within a few days....that's back when they were still in beta.
It seems that anyone can sign up now, though, and get their code instantly.
Bryan Gilchrist
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Andres
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Aug 30, 2006, 6:46 PM
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It is working great.
Andres
(This post was edited by Andres on Oct 19, 2006, 5:38 PM)
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