I recently re-did the www.netconnex.com web site using the My Web Pages Starter Kit. I needed to get google analytics setup on it, so here is what I did:
- Installed James Newton Kings sitemap handler
- Setup the www.netconnex.com website in Google's Webmaster Tools
- In Google's webmaster tools, the www.netconnex.com/sitemap.axd sitemap to the list of sitemaps
- When to Google Analytics, setup an account for my site and copied the tracking code they provide (here's how to get the tracking code for an existing account).
- Opened the site in Visual Studio 2008, and edited the site.master file
- I pasted the tracking code I copied from Google Analytics to the bottom of the site.master file, just before the closing body tag (</body>)
- Saved the site.master!
FYI, I also copied the output of the www.netconnex.com/sitemap.axd file to a file in the root of the website called sitemap.xml . This way if there were any tools that looked specifically for the sitemap.xml file they would find it.
I let it sit for a day, and checked in on Google Analytics the next day, and I had stats for all of my sites pages.
UPDATE: Based on the comments, I have created a zip file with my web.config and site.master files in it. You can Download the sample files here
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Hi Bret
I managed to insert the tracking code, no problem.
What I am battling with is the sitemap.
Where exactly do I put the
add verb="*" path="sitemap.axd" type="Newtonsoft.Sitemaps.SitemapHandler, Newtonsoft.Sitemaps"
My webconfig does not have an httpHandler section:
There does seem to already be a SiteMapProvider?
Excuse my newbness...
systemadmin, when you are adding the sitemaps handler, you need to create an <httpHandlers> section inside the <system.web> element. Here is a snippet of my web.config (the code below will likely wrap):
<system.web>
...
<httpHandlers>
<add verb="*"
path="sitemap.axd"
type="Newtonsoft.Sitemaps.SitemapHandler, Newtonsoft.Sitemaps"/>
</httpHandlers>
...
</system.web>
The SiteMapProvider that you see is a different thing. The SiteMapProvider is what provides data to various ASP.NET SiteMap consumers, like the menu controls. I haven't looked at the source code for the sitemaps handler, but I wouldn't be surprised if it too is pulling its data from the SiteMapProvider.
You can read more about the sitemaps that search engines like google want at sitemaps.org
systemadmin, I have posted a zip file with copies of my site.master and web.config files in it. Download the sample files here
Thanks for your help, Bret! Much appreciated.
Tim
It's working! Thank you.
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