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1. garricsimonsen
   Member
   Dec 13, 2009, 3:57 AM

   does anyone have a way of enabling blog tracking using google analytics...?? I cannot locate the (/wp-content/plugins/) to add 3rd party plugins...

   The blog I need help with is garricsimonsen.wordpress.com.

2. thesacredpath
   Staff
   Dec 13, 2009, 4:08 AM

   Google analytics cannot be used at wordpress.COM, and we cannot use plugins, so we have no access to the underlying structure.

   If you have to have GA, then you will have to host your blog on a third-party hosting site using the software from wordpress.ORG.

3. garricsimonsen
   Member
   Dec 13, 2009, 8:28 AM

   any options other than GA...?

4. thesacredpath
   Staff
   Dec 13, 2009, 2:25 PM

   Sitemeter, Activemeter and Statcounter have some plain HTML versions that can be used here (code placed in a text widget) but make sure you get the plain HTML versions of the code, not the script/javascript version. The information you will get will be limited since we cannot use script/javascript here though.

5. thesacredpath
   Staff
   Dec 13, 2009, 2:26 PM

   I should also mention that you can use quantcast.com stats as well, and since wordpress already uses their service, you get more information from them than from the others.

6. timethief
   Member
   Dec 13, 2009, 8:07 PM

   These posts contain links and brief reviews of the third party stats counters we can use on wordpress.com blogs:
   http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/visitor-tracking-on-wordpress-com-blogs/
   http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/real-time-visitor-tracking-non-javascript-for-blogs/

7. trent
   Member
   Dec 13, 2009, 9:27 PM

   Those are great articles on @timethief site by the way ;)

   Trent

8. timethief
   Member
   Dec 13, 2009, 9:28 PM

   @Trent
   Thanks for the praise. I appreciate it. :)

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