Google Analytics is fast becoming one of the most popular website traffic analytics tools on the market today. And rightly so, it's full of incredibly valuable information that almost any e-commerce store can use to learn the most about their customers' online habits while visiting their site. This can certainly help get you ahead of the competition.
If you don't yet have Google Analyitcs, and you're interested, just sign up online at:http://www.googleanalytics.com/So, you signed up and got to the point where they ask you to drop in your Google Analytics tracking code into EVERY page on your site. Sounds like a daunting task? Not really; not with Shop a la Cart.
To add the tracking code, just follow these simple steps:1)
Open the first (home.html) of the 5 templates that make up your website in any editor of your choice (a text editor like Notepad will do just fine). You can find the tempates in the "tmpl" folder within your website's file structure.
2)
Scroll all the way to the bottom, and PASTE the Google Analytics tracking code just above the </BODY> tag in the template. It'll look something like this when you're done:
... lots of code...
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "UA-xxxxxx-x";
urchinTracker();
</script>
</body>
</html>
3)
Repeat this step for the other 4 templates (cat.html, prod.html, content.html, secure.html) and then save them all and upload them back to your site. That's it!
After you have your new Google Analytics tracking code in place, you'll need to wait a bit for the tracking to start... up to 24 hours. You'll find out more info about the wait within your account on their site.
