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Shop Maker V4 User Guide

Traffic statistics

Shop Maker V4 does not have any built in traffic statistics because we believe that there are FREE services out there that can offer much better reporting than we could. Google Analytics is one of these free services.
If you already have a Google account, you will have access to this already.
If you do not have an account, you can sign up by visiting www.google.com/analytics/sign_up.html

Integrating Google Analytics into Shop Maker

The first step is to log into your Google account and click on Analytics
Then click on Add a Website Profile
You can now enter your new domain name which once entered, will show your unique tracking code.

To insert this into your Shop Maker, follow these steps.
1: Log into your Shop Maker administration.
2: Go to Content and design > Footer boxes > Add a new footer box
3: Click the HTML button in the Content editor.
4: Copy and paste the Google tracking code into the HTML Source Editor and update.
5: Click the Add footer box button to save the new content.
6: Next step is to add the footer box to your layout so click the Edit layout button, assign your new footer box using the footer box drop down lists and Update.

Once this is in place, go back to your Google Analytics page and click on Analytics Settings.
Your website profile should now be listed here. You now need to click on the Check Status link. This checks that you have added the Google Tracking code correctly. Once

There is one final step required to verify your site with Google.
Google will provide you with a line of meta data HTML. To insert this into Shop Maker go to Settings > Shop settings and paste it into your <head> HTML field.

If you have any problems doing this, please let us know and we will be happy to assist.