Google Analytics Tracking with WordPress Hosted Account

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  dwyngard · Member · Jun 26, 2012 at 2:58 pm

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  How do I add GA tracking to my blog which is hosted on WordPress? Since I can’t install plugins I’m not sure how I can get tracking installed.

  Thank you,

  Devin

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  feartheseeds · Member · Jun 26, 2012 at 3:53 pm

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  For a lot of reasons WordPress does not allow Google Analytics on its free blogs… if you’re looking for numbers, you can get WP friendly accounts here:

  http://www.sitemeter.com
  http://www.quantcast.com/
  http://getclicky.com/

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  countrymoosie · Member · Jun 27, 2012 at 6:38 pm

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  I have upgraded – not sure about free blogs. However, I just went into dashboard > tools and copied the meta key content string from Google analytics to the provided area within tools – “Webmaster Tools Verification”. It was very simple – once I figured out where to add the meta tag content!

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  timethief · Member · Jun 27, 2012 at 6:52 pm

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  There is no upgrade you can purchase from WordPress.com that will allow you to run Google analytics on your blog. http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#additional-info