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How to Add Analytics or Verification Codes to WP Blogs Genesis Themes

August 29, 2013 By Gail Gardner 28 Comments

Where you add header code
Where you add header code in Genesis for analytics or to verify your site

When you join a blogging community or a blogger outreach site like Guest Crew, you are often asked to verify your site by adding code to the header. This post explains where to put that code if you use Genesis. The same place is also where you put analytics code for Google Analytics or any other analytics program. Here’s how:

  1. Log into WordPress
  2. In your dashboard point at Genesis and click on Theme settings
  3. Scroll down to Header and Footer Scripts
  4. Paste the code in the box. If you already have analytics code in there, paste the new code after (outside of) the existing code. Do NOT paste it before </script>
  5. IMPORTANT: Click save settings. (If you don’t click save settings your changes won’t be  made.)

Be very careful editing any code because you can break your site!

Here’s what the code looks like:

Example of 2 different verification codes
Example of two verification codes (one for Google and one for Guest Crew)

Be very careful editing any code because you can break your site!

If you already have anything in that box it is a good idea to copy and paste it somewhere you can save it – just in case you want to put it back the way it was. If you need assistance contact me via Skype, Twitter, by leaving a comment or using the additional information in the contact tab on this blog. Go to the contact tab or click this link.

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Gail Gardner is the founder of GrowMap.com. She is a Small Business Marketing Strategist who mentors small businesses, bloggers, and freelancers. After 23 years in the field with IBM and 5.5 years managing AdWords accounts, her focus shifted to small business marketing strategy. GrowMap.com is listed by Cision as a Top 100 Site for Marketers and has received three Small Business Influencer Awards from Small Business Trends. Named by D&B a Top 50 SMB Influencer on Twitter, you can follow Gail @GrowMap and on LinkedIn.
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Comments

  1. Sharom says

    October 19, 2016 at 4:17 am

    Thank you for this.
    After breaking my head and ripping out hair-I found this was the only resourse that actually helped.

    Reply
    • Gail Gardner says

      October 19, 2016 at 2:32 pm

      Hi Sharom,

      I’m glad it helped. When I have to figure something out I know there will be others who need that information. Sometimes that “other” is me – later – when I can’t remember how I did it. I use blog posts to remind me how to do it again.
      Gail Gardner would love you to read ..How Empathy Marketing Shows Your Readers and Customers You CareMy Profile

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  2. Bradley Elliot says

    October 8, 2013 at 7:48 am

    code from blogger is rarely used in small sorts of industries that would be engaging once you have make your sides, then the decision is always yours weather you want it right or wrong.

    Reply
  3. Michelle Green says

    September 17, 2013 at 12:07 pm

    Thanks for the useful info.Beginners like me need to be careful when they touch header file 🙂

    Reply
  4. Ileane says

    September 5, 2013 at 4:23 pm

    Hi Gail!

    Nice to see that you are using Genesis for your blog’s theme now! Thanks for the tutorial because I plan on switching soon also.

    Reply
  5. James Wilkerson says

    September 5, 2013 at 3:03 pm

    Hey,

    I use Genesis Wordpree theme because it helps and makes easy to add scripts.

    Thanks,
    James Wilkerson

    Reply
  6. Kristine says

    September 5, 2013 at 7:42 am

    I’m a Genesis user and this is something I really appreciate reading about. Thank you for the detailed write-up. This will help a lot!

    Reply
  7. Ian says

    September 5, 2013 at 8:10 am

    And that’s why we use Genesis as well! Easy to add the scripts we need

    Reply
  8. Bashir Ahmed says

    September 4, 2013 at 7:25 pm

    Hi Gail,

    Nice and informative post for bloggers like me who are using Genesis Themes. I’m using Genesis on my all blogs and this post will help me to solve the Google Analytics or any other verification.

    Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  9. Stephen Shefrin says

    September 4, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    I did this on my site and it works great. My only problem now is that I\’m addicted to the real time feature and watching where visitors go on my site, but its very useful information for improving it.

    Reply
  10. wajid khan says

    September 4, 2013 at 5:23 pm

    Dear Gail Gardner,
    Nice post it is very helpful, but please also post about how to add footer and header code.
    Regards,
    Wajid Khan

    Reply
  11. Hammad Mehdi says

    September 4, 2013 at 10:36 am

    Good Share !! buts why you didn’t mention about the webmaster. This is almost the same steps oriented task to integrate the webmaster tool to your blog.

    Reply
  12. Joy says

    September 4, 2013 at 8:46 am

    Very nice of you to provide the step-by-step procedure. I plan to use Genesis so this really comes at the right time… Thank you so much.

    Reply
  13. Robert Koening says

    September 4, 2013 at 1:15 am

    This was very informative and I liked the steps being clear if I do decide to utilize analytics in the future.

    Reply
  14. Sohan says

    September 3, 2013 at 5:10 pm

    This is very useful for every bloggers.Because most of are not add analytics code in Genesis properly, Thanks for sharing..

    Reply
  15. Uttoran Sen says

    September 3, 2013 at 10:11 am

    Thanks Gail for the mention, and a great tutorial.

    Most bloggers find it hard to add “webmaster tool verification”, “google analytics code” and other such things on their wordpress blogs… personally, had a hard time validating technorati recently when, ever after doing everything right, they were still unable to find their codes… finally it got resolved by it’s own. I guess our blog’s cache is also responsible for it sometimes,

    will be adding a few more validation options on guest crew soon, the programmers are already working on it,

    thanks,
    Uttoran Sen,

    Reply
  16. Saif says

    September 3, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    Its easy to add analytics code in Genesis. They have given the option in theme 😀
    Thanks

    Reply
  17. Myhox says

    September 3, 2013 at 6:23 am

    Hi Gail !
    Thank you for your useful tutorial. i got nice opportunity to learn right information from your tutorial guideline and would like to replicate to my blog.

    Reply
  18. Manoj kumar says

    September 3, 2013 at 10:49 am

    Nice article Gail

    But i want to ask that “Is there any effect if place the code in places Image options, All in One Seo Pack Plugin General Setting and Page/Post all together.
    Please reply the question.

    Reply
  19. amarish negi says

    September 3, 2013 at 10:27 am

    nice post!..Genesis is an awesome theme.this theme provides a solid and secure base to customize your website or blog..thanks for this informative article…

    Reply
  20. John White says

    September 2, 2013 at 6:35 pm

    Great post. Thank you for tutorial. I would like to use Genesis so I’m going to do it! 🙂

    Reply
  21. Mayank says

    September 2, 2013 at 6:46 am

    Thanks so much. The tutorial was helpful for me.

    Reply
  22. Frank Cern says

    September 2, 2013 at 2:08 am

    Gail, nice run through. I’ve heard that Genesis is a very good theme as it is seo friendly and flexible.

    Reply
  23. Nish says

    September 1, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    Interesting. I remember putting the code in the header.php file. Somehow, it got over-written, and I didn’t realize it. A much safer and reliable way is to use the .htaccess file, or cPanel 🙂

    PS: this also helps if you have multiple WP installations on the same account!

    Reply
  24. Ahsan says

    August 30, 2013 at 1:34 pm

    Genesis Themes is different from other WordPress themes. So sometimes its tough to add different codes as we do in normal sites.

    thanks for adding basic idea how to add code on Genesis Themes

    Reply
  25. Gaurav Heera says

    August 29, 2013 at 3:49 pm

    great article gail,
    Genesis hemes are realy very good and seo friendly. i am also planning to buy a Genesis theme for blog. thanks for the tutorial may it’ll help me in future.

    thanks for sharing

    Reply
  26. Pramod says

    August 29, 2013 at 2:19 pm

    Nice tutorial Gail !
    Another option can be adding the verification codes in the relevant text boxes of the WordPress SEO plugin’s dashboard .Thanks for sharing this tutorial with us !

    -Pramod

    Reply
  27. Greg Holbert says

    August 29, 2013 at 2:03 pm

    Great Post, Gail!

    I am always nervous about editing code for blog platforms, but your step by step instructions make it easy! Perhaps entering the code we are supposed to copy in a text box to allow copy and paste would be a great help to people who are scared to death of changing code. Other than that, keep up the great posts!

    Reply

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