How to Add Google Analytics to Your TypePad Blog

Grab Your Google Analytics Code Block

1. Login to Google Analytics at http://google.com/analytics/. The main Settings page loads.
2. Click on Add Website Profile. A form displays.
3. Select Add a Profile for a New Domain.
4. Enter the URL of your site or blog.
5. Select your country and time zone. Click Finish.
6. Analytics provides you with a code block – a swatch of HTML – to add to your site’s pages.

Add the Google Analytics Code Block to Your TypePad Blog

1. Since TypePad doesn’t let you easily edit your blog’s templates, we’re going to use a widget from Widgetbox.com. You will have to create a Widgetbox account to use their widgets.
2. In a second browser window (Ctrl+N or Command+N), go to the Google Analytics widget at Widgetbox.
3. Enter in your Analytics Code – note the whole Code Block – just the little code that looks similar to UA-91087-10.
4. Click on Get Widget. If you haven’t already created a Widgetbox account you’ll do that as well.
5. The Install Widget Panel displays, click on Install Panel.
6. Your TypePad account opens in a separate window (you’ll need to login to TypePad if you haven’t already).
7. Choose a blog to add the Google Analytics widget to and click Add Widget.
8. The Google Analytics Widget has been added.

You have now added Widgetbox’s Google Analytics Widget to Your TypePad Blog.

Check Your Work

1. To ensure that you have successfully added the Google Analytics Code Block to your Blogger blog, go back to http://google.com/analytics/.
2. Next to your blog’s URL it will say either Receiving Data (you were successful) or Tracking Not Installed (something is amiss).
3. If it said Tracking Not Installed, click on Check Status. Google then checks your blog for the Analytics Code Block and reports back if it find it or not.
4. If not, try re-adding the Widgetbox widget.