The best position to manually place your Google Analytics tracking code in your Blogger template

If you have not being making use of Google Analytics to monitor your blog/site stats, then it is either you have been dealing with false stats counts on your blog activities or that you do not even have any idea of what is going on behind your blog.

I can categorically tell you without any apology that Google Analytics is the best tool out there today that provides the closest estimates of those activities taking place on your blog that you don’t have direct control of.

Apart from Analytics most other blog stats counts are extremely inaccurate, including your Blogger stats counter.

We came up with this theory after having studied and compared Google Analytics results with some other stat counter tools out there, and we found out that Analytics provided more reasonable results than all.

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Today, we are writing on this topic not because some of you have not already being making use of Analytics to monitor your pages, but because there have always been this confusion on what part of the Blogger template should the Analytics tracking code be positioned.

But before we will go on to answer that properly, we will not base our assumption that all of you are already making use of Google Analytics, therefore we will like to carry everybody along by quickly giving a run-down of how to manually and properly install Google Analytics tracking codes on your Blogger.

Google Analytics can also be installed perfectly on other blogging platforms like Wordpress, Tumrl etc, but we will be focusing on Blogger here to clarify the issue on Analytic code placement.

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To make use of Google Analytics on your Blogger follow the steps below;

= => Since you already have a Google Account as a blogger on Blogger platform, you need to signup up separately on Google Analytics with your Google account details

= => After Signup, log in to your Analytics account and add your blog/site by heading to the current website section and clicking on the Add website profile

= => Fill in your blog/site URL in the space provided for that and click continue to go get your Analytics tracking codes….it is a series of javascript that starts with <script> and ends with </script>.

= => Copy the entire codes without editing them in any form.

= => Head over to your Blogger dashboard and click on the Template section…*Always remember to back up your blog template at this point before working on the template codes*

= => Click on Edit/HTML to open your blog template codes

= => Click anywhere inside the code section and then press CTRL + F to open up the search box inside your code window, then look for the tag </head>.

= => Now just immediately above the </head>, paste your copied Analytics tracking code and then click on save tab to save the changes.

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Note, at this point is where the confusion normally come in, as some will tell you to look for the </body> tag rather and paste your Analytics code above it. But for best performance you should paste it above the </head> as indicated the above step.

= => Refresh your blog, and within some time, your Google Analytics code will be propagated into your template.

You can then log in to your Analytics page at any other time to check and monitor your blog stats count with it.

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