To Insert a Banner Link to your blog you must first...............

have a banner ready. You can create your own banner in an image editing program like I have done or go to an online banner generator. To find an online banner generator just type 'free banner generator' in Google's Search Box and hit Enter.

Once you have made a banner upload it to a free host like GooglePages. At present GooglePages offers 100 MB free space for hosting your files. After uploading it copy the Url of the image.

You can even upload the banner picture to Blogger. To do this click on Create Post and click on the Add Image icon in the top frame of the Post Editor.

NOTE :THE ONLY FILE YOU CAN UPLOAD TO BLOGGER IS A IMAGE FILE.

Choose the picture in your PC by browsing to it and upload it to the post. Now click the Edit Html tab in the top frame of the Post Editor. There you will see the code for the picture which will look like this :






You can extract the URL of the picture from the above code like this :

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_J2kVk3AKsXA/RXcetyx4o6I/
AAAAAAAAAAw/khphtkWwAMY/s400/PIC_NAME.jpg


Copy this and use it later. You can now save this post as a draft so that it is not seen by viewers.

Log in to Dashboard of your blog and click on Layout. Click on Edit Html tab next to Page Elements tab below the Template tab. Do not put a check in the Expand Widget templates box. Scroll down in the Edit Template text box till you come to :

Replace the second line above with this line :



Save Template. Click on Page Elements tab. On Page Elements view you will now see a link to Add Page Elements has been added to the Blog Posts section.

CHOOSE TEXT PAGE ELEMENT TO CREATE A PERMANENT MESSAGE ON TOP OF YOUR POSTS.

Click on this link and a popup window will open with 12 choices. Choose the Html/Javascript option. DO NOT choose the picture option because that will only add a banner and not a banner-link. In the content section of the Add Html/Javascript window add the following code :

Your Blog Title

Substitute MYBLOG with name of your blog, URL OF YOUR BANNER AT GOOGLEPAGES with the link of your banner you uploaded to Googlepages in Step 2 and YOUR BLOG TITLE with the title of your blog. Save Changes. Refresh Cache. View Blog.

See the banner I have created at the top of this post.

How to Analyze Site Traffic with Google Analytics 0 comments

To analyze web site traffic with Google Analytics you will.....

first have to add the Analytics code to your blog template. To do this go to Google Analytics and register with your Google account. It is free and has no limitations. On the Analytics Settings page click on '+ Add Website Profile' link in the top frame of the Website Profiles box. This takes you to the ' Create New Website Profile' page.

Paste the URL of your blog/site in the text box under ' Add a Profile for a new domain '. Select the timezone of your country and click on Finish. A new page opens where you are presented with the code to be pasted in your template. Right click in the text box and Select All and then left click in the shaded section and select Copy. Go to Edit Html under Template tab in your blog after logging in to Dashboard and clicking on your blog name. Scroll down in Edit Template text box and paste the code copied from Google Analytics at the very end of the template just before the tag. Save Template Changes. Republish.

Go back to Google Analytics main Settings page and you will find your site/blog listed. Click on the confirm link to confirm that you have added the code to your blog and Google Analytics will start receiving data.

To see the reports go to Google Analytics Settings page click the down arrow in the text box 'Click to select Website Profile' next to 'View Reports' in the orange bar running across the top of the page. Select the blog url for which you want to view reports. The default 'Executive Overview' page of Reports of your site opens. The page is divided into two main parts : A

sidebar and a main column titled Executive Overview. Click the image alongside for a bigger view. The sidebar contains the Dashboards where youcan select the views you want to see, the All Reports section showing optimization for Marketing and for Content and lastlya Date Range section where you can select a date range for which to view reports.

The main column of Executive Overview is divided into four parts. The top left rectangle show Visits and Pageviews for the last week. The top right rectangle show how many visits were by New and how many by Returning visitors as a percentage of the total visits that week. The bottom left recangle shows a Geo Map Overlay showing the international distribution of your visitors that week. The bottom right shows the Visits by Source that week showing the sites your visitors came from.

Some other useful site counters can be found at :

http:/www.statcounter.com
http:/www.clustrmaps.com
http://sitemeter.sitetoolbox.com/
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/......Free