In lesson 13 of our Build a Responsive Professional Website using Thesis Theme 2, we show how to integrate your WordPress site with Google. We begin by showing you how to create a sitemap using Google XML Sitemaps and how to verify that it’s working. Then we show how to create a Google Account which is necessary before you can use Google Anayltics and Webmaster Tools.
We take you on a tour of both Google Analytics and Webmaster tools to give you a sense of what they tell you about your website and where you find the information. And we show how to configure both of these tools.
Create a Sitemap
- Download Google XML Sitemaps
- Set Plugin Options
- Basic Options
- Additional Pages
- Post Priority
- Location of your sitemap file
- Sitemap Content
- Excluded Items
- Change Frequencies
- Priorities
- Generate Sitemap
- Verify Sitemap
Create a Google Account
- Create a Gmail account
Configure Google Analytics
- Create Analytics account
- Account name
- URL
- Timezone
- Data sharing
- User agreement
- Get Analytics tracking code
- Choose the correct tracking
- Copy the code
- Add Tracking code to site
- Thesis Site >> Tracking Scripts
- Verify tracking code
- View source
- Analytics Admin
- Account Admin
- Select account name
- Select Tracking Code
- Website Tracking
Tour Google Analytics
- Audience
- Overview
- Demographics – Location
- Behavior – Frequency & Recency
- Behavior – Engagement
- Traffic Sources
- Overview
- Sources – Referrals
- Sources – Search – Organic
- add a secondary dimension
- look at new visitors only
- Content
- Pages
- Landing pages
- Advanced Segments
Configure Webmaster Tools
- Add a site
- Verify Ownership
- Alternate method
- GA tracking code
- Add Sitemap
Tour Webmaster Tools
- Dashboard
- Site Configuration
- Diagnostics
