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Google Analytics 6 years 8 months ago #64286

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I have no idea, when Google Analytics asks me to upload their verification code to my FTH site, where does this text go?

Google also wants me to enter a meta tag in the <head> section and above the <body> section. I have no idea how to do this as the only way I know how to access the source is on the Home page.

I should also be using my asynchronous tracking code, which needs to be located, once again in the <head> section.

One final thought, how do I submit a sitemap to them?

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Google Analytics 6 years 8 months ago #64287

Brian Offline Administrator Posts: 11642 Thank you received: 3880	support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/item/website-statistics Read the part on Google Thank you, Brian McDonald DTM, PDD D61 FTH Lead Technical Support member Cataraqui Valley Toastmaster 9560
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Google Analytics 6 years 8 months ago #64292

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Google assumes you are building your site from scratch and you have total control over everything. You are not building it from scratch, and you do not have total control over everything... You mostly control the content. The code I maintain and update does most of the technical heavy lifting for you and all the rest of the clubs/districts using the system. You give up some control for ease of use... that is the bargain.

We (me) control the website template, and I provide places for you to plug in the appropriate information to customize the template for your club. Think of it sort of like one of those picture frames that has all the cutouts in it for all the smaller photos... I create and maintain the "frame", and you decide what "pictures" (content) you want to show in the cutouts.

Bottom Line: For the Google Analytics stuff, just get their Javascript from them and plug it into the spot for that on the Website Statistics tab. The code handles the rest.

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Steve James, DTM
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Officer Emeritus, Mindful Communicators (Club 1966, District 52) A President's Distinguished Club for each of the last 10 years.

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Google Analytics 6 years 8 months ago #64351

Palospres Topic Author Offline Senior Member Posts: 54 Thank you received: 0	I registered my site the other day. Now I have no idea where to obtain the java script. Can you help?
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Google Analytics 6 years 8 months ago #64354

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Reference the following instructions: support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008080?hl=en

They are calling the JavaScript the "tracking code"... that is what you need. If you have the choice to get the async version, get that. (It does not slow down your website load.)

BTW... it is essentialy the same tracking code for all websites... The only thing that is different in each instance is an embedded identifier that ties your website to your Google account.

The following will give you an idea what the code will look like from Google: developers.google.com/analytics/devguide...lection/analyticsjs/

The UA-XXXXX-Y identifier (X & Y are placeholders here) is the account identifier that Google uses to tie your website to your Google account.

Don't worry if the code looks complicated... you do not need to understand it. You just need to copy/paste it to right box in the admin console.

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Google Analytics 6 years 8 months ago #64394

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My site has not been indexed. I communicated with a Google forurm & received the following:

from www.toastmastersofpalosheights.com/ I am seeing a 302 temporary redirect to www.toastmastersofpalosheights.com/?z7Tm

I am also seeing pages indexed w/o www and w/o https. To consolidate all indexation under a single version I would recommend changing the redirect to a 301 and make sure it is direct and does NOT append any characters to the url as in the case above.

For HTML tag verification method - You need to place verification meta tag on your home page as follows

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your Title</TITLE>
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="String_we_ask_for">
</HEAD>
<BODY>

For more details and other verification methods, please see support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35179?hl=en

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Google Analytics 6 years 8 months ago #64396

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SteveTheTechie wrote:
Google assumes you are building your site from scratch and you have total control over everything. You are not building it from scratch, and you do not have total control over everything... You mostly control the content.

Referencing my comments again from above. Keep these in mind when communicating w/ Google.

In this case, basically ignore what they are telling you and get the meta tag from Google Webmaster tools and plug it into the appropriate box in the Website Settings tab. The system takes care of integrating it.

Once you do that, you should be able to request Googlebot to index your site.

The 302 temporary redirect is because of the Enforce HTTPS Usage setting. Basically the system is redirecting all insecure attempts to load your website to a secure attempt. In the future, I may change this to a cookie based approach, but for now we are using redirects.

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Google Analytics 6 years 8 months ago #64882

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SteveTheTechie wrote:
In the future, I may change this to a cookie based approach, but for now we are using redirects.

I have now changed the "Enforce HTTPS" method to a cookie based approach. The setting is additionally saved in a cookie that Apache can pick up when it is figuring how how to handle web page loads with its rewrite rules. I am hoping this back end manipulation by Apache may be too early for Google / Bing to detect, but we shall have to see.