In this video you're going to learn how to create your first Google Analytics account.
It's free to do it.
It's going to take you less than five minutes and you get started.
You want to go to Google dot com forward slash analytics like put the link to this in the resources
section of the video so you can click right through and be brought to this page.
And once you get here you want to click on sign in on and sign into analytics.
Now here you will sign in with your Google account if you have one.
And if you don't have one you can go ahead and select the option to create your accounts.
I've already got one set up so I'm just going to log in with this.
Once you sign in it's going to show you the three steps to start analyzing your site's traffic.
In this video we're completing step number one which is to sign up for Google Analytics and the next
video will do the tracking code so that we can send the information from our Web site back to Google
Analytics.
And then after a few hours we'll be able to see that data about our site.
So those are the three steps.
For now we're just completing step number one which is to sign up now in this page we put in some information
about the Web site or app that we're going to be tracking.
Now I'm going to leave this as web site and so we want to come down and the next step is to input the
account name.
And typically this is going to be the name of your business for this example and is going to put this
as analytics demo then we need to put in our Web site name.
And again for this example I'm just going to put in analytics demo but for you that might just be the
name of your site.
Now inside Google Analytics and inside your Google Analytics account you can have multiple properties
or web sites that you are tracking.
So it's good if you have different sites to just include that name so it is distinguishable from other
sites he might be tracking next.
You want to put in your web site you are el
and then you want to select your industry category and this is at coolth feature by Google Analytics.
If we select this it's actually going to show reports in Google Analytics by similar Web sites to us
in our industry and create benchmarks for those and through those benchmarks we can really see how our
Web site is performing in that industry.
So I mean to that this is Internet and telecom that you want to set your reporting time zone.
And typically this will be in the country where your business is you're setting this up abroad you really
want to set this up in the time zone that you will be reporting on DAY TO DAY.
So I'm going to change this to where I am now which is arland next you can select the data sharing options
I really just wanna leave these as they are.
As I mentioned if we share our information with Google Analytics they can share share information from
other sites to give us those benchmarks.
And also it makes it easier for any technical support or specialist support in the future.
Then we want to just hit get tracking ID and now we just need to agree to the terms of service.
So like the country that you're in and you can click I accept and just like that we've set up our first
Google Analytics account.
So now it's your turn.
Go ahead to Google dot com forward slash analytics and sign up for your first Google Analytics account.