In blogger the disadvantage of blog dashboard page viewers is that, the owner of the site alone has privilege to track the visitor that visit the site, but by installing site meter apart from the owner of the site visitor as well can track the number of visitor that visit the site.
Site meter always provide the answers, the comprehensive real time website tracking give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience. With site meter detailed reporting a blogger 'll have a clear picture of who is visiting your site, how they found you, where they came from, what interests them and much more.
In this article I ma going to discus in detail how to register and install site meter on your blog. Once you follow this step tutorial at the end you will find it very easy to install.
How to register for site meter
First, tell us about your site.
Your Site's URL:
Enter the main page of your blog.
Your Site's Name:
Enter your site name
Codename:
s51
Enter only one word without any spaces or special characters. Your codename is what uniquely identifies your counter and you will use it to log in to your Site Meter account. It is not a password but it will be visible to other people if they move their mouse over the counter on your site.
Your Current Time:
Setting your current time will make your reports and charts display in your local time and time zone.
after the first step have been completed then click next to move to the next page
| Next, tell us a little about you. |
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| Email Address: |
Title: |
| Only valid email
addresses accepted. Be careful to type your correct email address as we will be
sending you an email immediately, confirming your Site Meter registration and
supplying you with a password to access your account. Please double-check
your email address. |
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| Your ZIP or Postal Code: |
Country: |
| Can you receive HTML email? Yes No |
Gender: |
Click here to sign up:Site meter
After the complete sign up you will receive an html code on your e-mail adress this is the code you will install into your blog.
How to install site meter html javascript code on your blog
Here is where you need to be very careful not to make any mistake while installing the code but once you follow this instruction very well it is very easy. Log in to your blog dashboard select template and click on it, on your template dashboard click Edit to have acess to the html javascript code.
Note: first make sure that you back up your html by click on the back up/restore at the to right corner then download and save. after the back up, it is time for you to click on the Edit html, once you are in your html dashboard click anywhere on it and press ctrl F to search, inside the Search box type </body> and press enter, the </body> code will display.
Copy your site meter html javascript and paste it immediately at the top of the </body> tag and save.
e.g <!-- Site Meter -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s51.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s51elegantupdates">
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://s51.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=s51elegantupdates" target="_top">
<img src="http://s51.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=s51elegantupdates" alt="Site Meter" border="0"/></a>
</noscript>
<!-- Copyright (c)2009 Site Meter -->
</body>
In case the code is not send to your e-mail intime, you can copy the above code and edit the user names "elegantupdates" to your own user names. Once you save it go back to your main dashboard and select layout-choose any gadget where you want the meter to appear on your blog and click on html javascript and paste the code once again and save your site meter is good to go
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