Before you start any advertising or marketing campaigns for your turnkey adult website, you should consider setting up a Google Analytics account.
What is Google Analytics?
Straight from the Analytics website:
Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features now let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way. With Google Analytics, you’re more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites.
Why is it important to integrate Google Analytics with your website?
Google Analytics can provide you with detailed information about visitors to your turnkey adult website. Everything from where they’re coming from, how they found your website to what type of software they’re using is logged and available for analysis. This is important because it can help you understand which of your advertising efforts are paying off so that you can focus your energy on the appropriate methods for your business. It also happens to be completely free of charge!
Your turnkey adult website integrates seamlessly with Google Analytics. Simply follow the directions in this post to setup a Google Analytics account and integrate it with your website.
Creating a Google Analytics Account:
- Go to http://www.google.com/analytics/.
Click on the “Sign Up Now” link.
Sign Up for Google Analytics
If you already have a Google account, enter your login details here (and skip to step #7) or click “Sign Up Now” to create your Google account.
Create a Google Account
Enter the required information into the “Create an Account” screen. It’s up to you if you wish to enable the Web History feature. I leave it disabled for privacy concerns since disabling it doesn’t affect your Analytics data. Review their terms of service and click on the “I accept. Create my Account” button.
Create a Google Account
If everything went well, you should receive the page shown below. You’ll need to login to your email account to verify your email address with Google. Look for an email titled “Google Email Verification” and click on the verification link enclosed.
Google Account Created
Your email address should now be verified and your account activated. Click on the “click here to manage your account profile” link to access your account profile.
Verify Your Email Address
Click on the “Analytics” link to launch Google Analytics.
Launch Google Analytics
Click on the “Sign Up” button on the Google Analytics page to sign up for and setup your Google Analytics account.
Sign Up for Google Analytics
Enter your website’s URL, create an account name for your website (this can be anything), enter your country and time zone and click “Continue”.
Enter Your Website Details
Enter your contact info including first name, last name and country and push “Continue”.
Enter Your Contact Information
Finally, review and agree to the Google Analytics terms and conditions and click “Create New Account”.
Review and Accept Google Analytics Terms
Ignore the instructions on the “Tracking Instructions” page and simply click “Save and Finish”. Tracking code generation and implementation is handled automatically for you by our software.
Ignore Instuctions for Tracking Code
You should now be on the Google Analytics dashboard for your account. Make note of your Web Property ID (highlighted below) as we will need to plug this into your website’s admin control panel to begin using Google Analytics with your website.
Copy Your Web Property ID
Login to your website’s admin control panel and click “Settings” from the top menu. Under the “Google Analytics Web Property ID” heading, enter the Web Property ID that you noted in the previous step. Click the “Save” button at the bottom of the page to enable Google Analytics tracking for your website.
Link Your Website With Google Analytics
Congratulations! Google Analytics is now integrated with your turnkey adult website. It may take 24 to 48 hours before you see any data in your Analytics account. Once you start seeing some activity in your Google Analytics account, be sure to spend some time playing with the various reports, features and functions to familiarize yourself with the software. Google Analytics is a powerful tool that can be used to analyze your website traffic, users and your marketing efforts.
