How to Sign up for Google Analytics

Posted by Phil on Jul 6, 2011 in Analytics, Featured, Google, How-to video, Instructional / How-to | 0 comments

This video is the first in a series of “How-To” instructional segments.  We get many questions about how to sign up for and use Google Analytics so the first few videos will cover Google Analytics and its various features and functionality; however if you have any requests for videos on other subjects please feel free to contact us.  Also, as this is our first training video we highly encourage you to comment below and let us know what you think of the video – please be brutally honest!

Written Instructions:

All you need to get started with Google Analytics is a GMail account.  If your business uses the Google applications suite and you have a business e-mail address hosted by Google that will work too.  To sign up for Google Analytics complete the following steps:

1. Go to the Google Analytics home page and login by entering your regular Google (or corporate) credentials and clicking “Sign In”.
2. On the next screen, click the “Sign Up” button.
3. On the screen after that, enter:  1) The address of the first website you’d like to track with Google Analytics.  2)  Under “Account Name” enter a “nickname” that you can use to refer to this site within your Google Analytics dashboard.  3) Your country and 4) Your time zone.
4. Then verify that everything is correct, and click “Continue”.
5. On the following screen, simply complete the first name, last name, and country fields, and then again click “continue”.
6. Read through the Google Analytics Terms of Service.
7. If you agree to them, click the checkbox indicating your agreement and then click “Create New Account” button.
8. Account setup is complete!
9. (Optional)  Copy/Paste your custom Google Analytics tracking code for insertion into your website, e-mail the tracking code to someone, or continue on to your Google Analytics dashboard.