Google Analytics 4 Tutorial | How to Setup & Add Google Analytics (GA4) to Your Website
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2023
- Want to learn how to easily set up and install Google Analytics 4 (GA4) on your website?
In this Google Analytics 4 tutorial, I walk you through how to create and set up a Google Analytics 4 (GA4) property, as well as how to install the code on your website (Including walkthroughs for WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, and Shopify Website.)
And then I wrap it up by showing you how to check to make sure that your website is tracking data, because what good is setting up Google Analytics if it's not gonna work, ya know? 😉
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Best ideo thus far. Thank you for literally starting at step 0 then moving to step 1 for us meticulous perfectionists lol.
Lolol so glad it was helpful!! 🙌☺️
Thank you sooooo so so much Mariah! I'm a total beginner and you've saved me days of researching if I were to figure it out on my own. Your videos are always helpful and straight to the point. Instant subscribed!!!
Yayyyyy! Thank you so much for the feedback. I’m glad they’re helpful. 🔥✨🥰🙌
Thanks for the video. Also, I figured i'd leave this comment for anyone who wound up here the same way i did. I made my website about 18 month ago and since then Google is switching from universal to GA4 so you will have to relink your site if you had your site up before the switch. This tutorial broke it down perfectly for me since I'm on wordpress. Plug in responded within a minute for me!
Aw yay, thank you so much for this feedback!! I’m glad it was helpful. I appreciate you 🥰🥳☺️
Thanks for the GA-4 Set Up video . Easy , Clear and made set-up a breeze !
Whoop whoop 🙌 so glad it was helpful!
I was sooooooo frustrated. Everything was working fine on my site until the forced Google migration. My site stopped counting hits! I tried a bunch of stuff, but got stuck. I watched your video one time and got it!!! Followed your instructions, tested in Real Time, everything's working. Thank you, Mariah.
TBH that forced GA4 setup is a total pain in the A. They’ve made things so much more complex then necessary. I’m so glad the video was helpful. Thank you for your kind comment ✨
This was amazing, thank you! I followed along and I am all set up and ready to start tracking! Very helpful.
Yessss, love to hear it. Thank you so much for your kind comment! 🥰
This is such a good tutorial! My first time using GA and I got everything set up in less than 20 minutes 🥰 Much appreciated, you're a great instructor.
Aw yay, I’m glad it was helpful! Thank you for your kind comment ✨
Thank you, Mariah, It's really lucid and understandable
The way you present the tutorial is impeccable :)
Awesome, I’m so glad it was helpful! Thank you for commenting 💃✨🥳
Thank you for your tutorial! It was so helpful & reduced the overwhelm that reading through all the other setup articles triggered.
I’m so so glad that it was helpful & I could help! Thank you for your kind comment 😊
Thank you! I signed up for a blogging course for my first blog and the instructions just said to install GA4 but with very few directions! Your tutorial saved me! I'll be watching more of your videos soon!
Whooop whooop so glad this was helpful! Feel free to pass this video along to the course creator and have them link to this one if they’re down for it. It can be quite a confusing process to teach or showcase if you haven’t done it a lot.
Wow, so helpful and detailed easy to follow steps. Am a beginner and didn't feel overwhelmed at all. Thanks
Yesss that’s the best feedback ever. I’m so glad you found it helpful. Thank you for commenting 🥰
Thanks Mariah. I followed your steps and was able to set up and test my tracking. Great video
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I'm gowri from India . I loved your way of explain the concept which is simple and clear-cut . it was much useful. I watched around 6 vdo but no one explain like you ....after watching your vdo i was like MAN I found GEM *** SUBSCRIBED : ) much love from my side
Thank you so much ☺️ I appreciate the kind words!!
Great Video Mariah!! So easy to setup. Thank you!!!!
Thank you! So glad it was helpful ✨
You did such a great job explaining everything. I appreciate you. Thank you.
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Thank you for this in depth tutorial! Mega helpful
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Love it, thank you - I'd like to know more about Events in Google Analytics, specifically links to email clicks and phone clicks, and whether I can manage them / report on them, without using tag manager. Great tutorial, inspired!
Awesome, so glad it was helpful! Thank you for the video idea. I’ll add it to my brainstorm list!
You did a great job explaining everything. I appreciate it. Thank you.
Thank you! I’m glad it was helpful ✨
Thank you for the great tutorial! Just my speed and very easy to follow. Already getting data! Thank you!
Aw yay, I’m so glad! 😃 thanks for your kind comment ✨
Awesome tutorial - Thank you!!
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Wonderful explanation, thank you Mariah.
You’re welcome! Thank you for commenting ✨😊
very helpful. thank you so much .
Aw yay, I’m so glad! Thank you for your kind comment ✨
awesome thanks so much this! Im glad when i searched for help on this your video pop up! thank u for people like me whos just learning how to build my own website! :)
Yay, so glad I could help. Thank you for your kind comment 🥰
Thank you very much is working perfectly for me after setup every thing 🎉🎉🎉
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Thank you so much, such a helpful, easy to follow video
Aw yay, I’m glad it was helpful! Thank you for your kind comment ✨
I had my account partially set up and finished it up with your assistance. Thank you!
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Hey.. this made the task super easy. Thanks for posting this video
Yay, I’m so glad it was helpful!
Great video. Thanks!
I’m glad it was helpful!
Great tutorial. Simple and straight forward. Would you do another GA dashboard overview video? I watched your 2020 version and the UI is really different?
Thank you for that feedback Brendan! ✨ Oh yeah the new version of GA4 is completely different. That’s a great video idea, I’ll add it to my brainstorm list. Thank you!!!
This was great. Thank you.
Awesome, I’m glad it was helpful. Thank you for commenting! 😊✨
Thanks for sharing :)
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Thank Mariah.This really helped me:)
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very easy to follow; thank you
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Extremely sweet and simple tutorial :)
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Thanks for helping me with google analytics through this video. Great tips also.
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Super helpful and clear for this tech-challenged girl - Thanks to you, I think Dog Life Made Better is all set up correctly!!!
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Thank you for tip at 5:45 about keeping the url aligned with whatever is pasted in (minus the ) Solved my issue of the tag not being found in the test. The www I typed in manually was the issue.
Yessssss so glad it worked!!!
Mariah that was good- thx
Awesome, I’m so glad it’s helpful ✨
Great tutorial thank you
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amazing tutorial
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Mam, really loved the way you described.
Thank you
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Thanks so helpful!👍 Could you say can we setup GA4 tags on AMP pages by GTM?
You can def setup more advance things using GTM, I just don’t have experience with it.
FYI, there is an HTML element called head and another called header. You want the GA code in the head tag, not the header. But some of those CMS screens may be doing that although it shows "Header"
Yes! You’re totally right. Most of my clients/students don’t dig around in the HTML themselves so they don’t necessarily have to pay attention to the difference but if you are, there’s a huge difference lol thanks for pointing that out ☺️
@@MariahMagazine Thanks for the reply. I subscribed and have another video of your in my watch later list !
Hi Mariah! Thanks for this info! What software do you use for screen recording while also recording your face?! :)
Hi! For a while I was using the Loom software to record. Sometimes I’ve used Zoom. And then lately I’ve been messing around with Descript. There’s quite a few options!
Thank you Mariah. I have been able to follow your tutorial and its working. I get a hit in google analytics each time I visit my home page.
How do I make it also count when other pages on the website are opened?
Awesome, I’m glad it’s helpful! If the tracking code was place in the header of your website and it’s on every page, it should track every page with no additional settings or anything needed.
@@MariahMagazine ok thank you
Great demonstration. easy to follow! Where does the measurement ID go in WordPress?
Awesome, I’m glad! As far as I know I don’t think WordPress has a native way to input just the measurement ID. So you’ll likely have to use a Google Analytics/Google plugin. Maybe check Monster Insights? They might have something. Or you can paste the header code into the header of your theme. Or use a plugin to put it there.
@@MariahMagazine thanks! Yeah that’s what I ended up doing- installing the monsterinsights plug-in.
Great tutorail, I have 50 websites, for those websites i want to google analytics and i have two options
1. create 50 accounts is good in one analytics account is good or
2. create one account and then create 50 properties in that account is good.
Yep, depending on how you want to manage them, you can create a separate GA account for each and they each have their own property. Or one account and 50 properties. If you’re gonna potentially expand where each website would need more than one property, I’d consider different accounts. But, up to you!
@@MariahMagazine thanks a lot
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thank you, the video was very helpful, i need one more answer, if my website has more than one html pages , let' say five, should i install the analytics code in every one of them ?
Good question. Most website platforms have a place you can pop the code into the header and then it will inject on every page. If you don’t have that option, you’ll need to add it to the header of every page manually.
thank you so much, manually is my case then @@MariahMagazine
So TNX
You’re welcome!
Mariah please help - the new GA4 dashboard is so confusing. Do I need to create custom reports/events to see what the Universal was showing?
Mainly interested in total pageviews + sessions, where the traffic comes from, the network referrals (for example, I used to be able to see which exact pin would send traffic to a post) etc.
Giiiiirl to be honest, I still am not clear on GA4 and how it all works. I just kinda set it up to start collecting data and have been using UA thus far for looking at things, which obv isn’t helpful now lol I’m not sure if it requires specific reports to get that info. I’m even about to start testing GA alternatives too to see if they’re easier to navigate bc this new version is a pain. And all the videos feel even too technical for me to follow lol my eyes glaze over. I will keep you posted if I figure the dashboard a bit more and keep me in the loop if you find the answer too!
@@MariahMagazine Omg, thought it was just me. This makes me feel better. 4 hours into a research pit and still couldn't figure out how to find simple data on the new dashboard haha. Here's to hoping that someone comes up with a simplified plugin for it.
Lololol I feel like we’re all feeling that way, but nope. If anything we’d prob have to figure out how to create custom reports for things like that, which kinda sucks bc the other dashboard was SO much more user friendly (and I never thought I’d say that 😂)
Hi, great video tutorial. How do I paste it into Adobe Portfolio?
Thank you! TBH I don’t have a clue. I’ve never worked with that platform. They should have a support tutorial about it though.
i have been using the old interfaceto to track simple things in relation to my design portfolio website, where people are coming from and what they are clicking to. i used the user explorer tab a lot in the older interface but cannot find it since updating to GA4 :(
The new GA4 dashboard is overwhelming and not as in-depth yet, from what I know so far. I’m still learning how to use it myself but honestly, it’s annoying lolol you’re not alone.
I set google analytics up last year and couldn't get it to work so I basically gave up. Messed around with it again today and was finally able to properly set it up, it's now working. Will I see all the data prior to today, or does the data start collecting as of today? This is so confusing. Thank you for your tutorial - Denise
I’m so glad the tutorial helped, Denise! Unfortunately the data can’t back track if it wasn’t being collected properly in the past. It will only start collecting data moving forward. It’s a little annoying, I know, but better late then never 🥳💃🎉
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So why you didn't tick the Google products and services at the top?, thx for the tutorial btw
Just personal preference, no deep reason!
I have Shift 4 Shop and am not sure where to paste the google analytics tag. Can you help with this?
I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard of that. I would reach out to their support team or Google for that platforms specific tutorial!
What about the pod website like etsy, redbubble, teepublic and many more
TBH I don’t work on projects using those websites so I don’t have a clue.
Hi, this is a random question but.. when having clients, what might be the best practice to get access to their GA4?
We can manager accounts for ads, but how do we manage analytics…. Thanks this has me confused and cant find the answer
I have a video on my channel that shows you how to add a user to a Google analytics account. It’s the exact video I send to my clients to have them give me access. Hopefully that helps!
I have a question
I have a blogger website so i will need to use website name as Account name?
You can name the account whatever you’d like. I usually name it the business name. But you can have numerous properties under one account. So if you have three websites, you can have your account named “Mariah” and then your properties named “Domain Name 1” “Domain Name 2” “Domain Name 3” (and obv name your account name your name, unless you want to name it after me 😂😂😂😂)
@@MariahMagazine Haha ok thanks so much
One more question
some of my posts are indexed and now I am facing a post index issue on my blogger website how I can solve this issue?
Any other than WordPress that they don’t charge?
Just letting you know you dont have to have gmail address to use analytics. You can register with any other one.
Oooooh they must have updated that! We love a good change like that. Thank you! ✨
I have already made google analytics 4, but after making google analytics 4 I bought new custom domain. How to add custom domain in google analytics 4 please
You can make a new Google Analytics 4 account for that property or you can change the info in Admin >> Property Settings & the URL in the data stream settings
I have 2 Google analytics set to word press, guys how do I uninstall one and also no records in my Google analytics yet. But my site kit has record. Am confused
Sometimes it takes a bit for data to start showing up on Google Analytics. But after a day or so it’s still showing on your website but not in the GA 4 dashboard then it might not be connected right. Make sure the tracking code is in the header of the whole website and not just one page! That’s an issue that sometimes happens.
Why is Google showing my footer in search engine results pages? What can I do about it?
Not sure exactly what you mean by this but it could be a few things, depending how your website is coded. The footer could be listed as a “content type” or something similar and your website could be having those types of content being crawled by Google. Or Google could be using the text in your footer as your websites meta description for a page (or a few) bc you don’t have your meta description customized. That’s just two reasons, could def be more!
I have an account with my clients accounts within it. If I go to create an account it just takes me to my "all accounts" overview basically where I can select any of the accounts and their properties. How do I create a brand new account for a new clients website?
You should be able to add an account once you get to the settings, or the option is usually at the bottom of the drop down of accounts.
I have two Etsy shops. Can you add any info to assist? Im not on Shopify.
Hi! I've never worked on Etsy so honestly I don't have a clue. Sorry I can't be of more help.
If you setup the wrong one how do you go and change it?
It depends where you set it up wrong. You can create a new property and delete the property you messed up on.
I have linked everything, and I can see the right ID attached, but I still see ''No data received from your website yet''.
Could it be because I didn't fill in ''Confirm your payment settings'' information?
I do not want to provide my bank details, as I am not going to pay for adds, I just need a Google Analytics account attached to my CZcams channel
Hmmm I’m not sure. I’ve never had to add my payment settings in order to setup Google analytics.
@@MariahMagazine I linked it with the website, without any issues. But still can not do it with youtube.
@@ElevateYourLiving I don't think you can connect Google Analytics to a CZcams channel. I think CZcams wants you to use their analytics built into the platform. You can track traffic coming to your website from CZcams though. But that's as much as I think you can do.
I keep getting Error messages when I try to install it. Can you suggest someone who can set it up for me on my two sites?
You can usually reach out to a support desk if you’re using a website platform that has one, or a web designer/developer. You can also explore Upwork or Fiverr too! Hopefully that helps!
Should this conversion be made for a blog as well as my website? I made the change that was asked but I also have a blog too. This process is confusing. SMH
If your blog is part of your domain name and it all lives on one site, you only need to do this once to track the data on the domain name. If your blog is connected to a different URL or platform, you’ll have to do this for that too. The old version Google Analytics is going to stop tracking data indefinitely in July 2023. And yes, I agree lol it far more complex and annoying than the old version. I feel like they made it way too complicated, especially for website owners that don’t have or aren’t gonna have an app.
@@MariahMagazine Yeah, I received an alert just for one of my websites, but I have like 3 others that based on what you're saying I have to do them as well - Thank you. SMH🙄
Yeah def not ideal lol but you can set them up as properties under one account is that makes it easier to manage! Doesn’t save too much time lol but one step
0:51 why didnt you tell us how to get that page?
You left out Google Sites
TBH, I’ve never worked on a website that uses that platform. I’m sure Google Sites has a spot to input the code in the header though, so you should be good to go ✨
Great stuff. I was viewing as a backup instruction. You verified what I have done correctly. Still no data after 2 days. See the pesky message above in my screenshot. "Some settings from our original Universal Analytics (UA)... shows up. Forgot, I can't attach images.
Aw yay I’m glad it was helpful. Unfortunately I’m not we’ll versed enough in the platform myself to help troubleshoot. I basically just have the basics down myself. They really threw us for a loop with this one lol it’s like overly complex for no reason in my opinion.
@@MariahMagazine I agree. I do see data coming in now thanks to you. I still have the notice about UA. Hopefully it will be gone soon. Been Page Indexing and cleaning website house. I continue to follow you. Keep it up.😀😀😀😀
I’m happy it ended up working out and tracking the data. Sometimes it takes a bit for it to start collecting in the dashboard. For the notices, you might be able to just “check” that you did things, like setting up Google Ads, etc so it goes away. Thanks for the feedback on my content, I appreciate it! ✨🎉
Outstanding! I truly appreciate the feedback, insights and response time. We should do some business. Contact info?
really helpful ,many thanks
You’re welcome! 🫶
Hello Mam!, Can you also help us hpw to setup the analytics in Framer. Since google analytics is showing framer is not there in their supported platforms. @mariah
Hi! I’ve never worked with that platform so I’m not sure how to do it.
there, very useful information. Thanksgiving for this video 😊. I am planning for a agency startup. Would like to know that, Can we integrate our clients website to a master GA Account and to GSC Account of Agency rather than to owners account. Please advise on this and do a content video on integration process of clients website with GA and GSC and Google Adsense. Will be helpful. Thank you.
You can have a master GA account and add clients sites as properties. I don’t like that approach personally because I prefer my clients to have full access to things vs living under mine just incase we have to part ways, it makes it easier.
@@MariahMagazine Thank you so much Mariah for your valid kind response to my query. So which means the agency should need to have the Gmail account log in details of their clients for GA and GSC integration process. Is it so ??
Great tutorial! Thank you so much.
You’re welcome! Glad it was helpful 🎉
thank you, so helpful!
Aw yay, I’m so glad! 💃💃