How to Setup Google Analytics Youtube Videos and Facebook Likes in Magento

Last updated on Jun 02 2022
Raghvendra Wanchoo

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How to Setup Google Analytics , Youtube Videos and Facebook Likes in Magento

Google Analytics, is Google’s web analytics service for those who are actively managing websites. It adds analytics to Magento store including E-commerce tracking and conversions of their websites. It allows administrators to monitor their website’s traffic.

The following steps help you set up Google Analytics in Magento store −

Step 1 − Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step 2 − Go to the System menu and click on the Configuration option.

image1 3 Step 3 − On the left side of the navigation bar, click on the Goggle API option under Sales section.

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Step 4 − Expand the Google Analytics panel which shows some settings such as −

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  • Enableoption should be set to Yes to activate payment method
  • Typeoption provides two types: Google Analytics and Universal Analytics
  • Account Numberaccepts your account number
  • Enable IP anonymizationoption should be set to Yes.

After done with the settings, click on the Save Config button to save the changes that you have made.

Magento – Setup URLs

You can use Magento to build for more user and search engine friendly URLs as shown in the following steps.

Step 1 − Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step 2 − Go to System menu and click on the Configuration option.

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Step 3 − On the left side navigation bar, click on the Web option under General section.

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Step 4 − When page loads, expand the Search Engines Optimization option. Set the option Use Web Server Rewrites to Yes to enable the Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs in Magento. If you select the option as No, then Magento will not use SEF URLs. Click on the Save Config button and your Magento SEF URLs will be enabled.

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Magento – Setup Youtube Video

In this section, we will learn how to set up YouTube videos to your Magento store as shown in the following steps.

Step 1 − Login to Magento Admin Panel.

Step 2 − Go to CMS menu and click on Pages option.

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Step 3 − You will get the list of pages where you can create a new page or edit an existing page. Here we have selected the About Us page to add YouTube video in it.

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Step 4 − On the left menu, click on the Content option which displays the information of the page. The Show/Hide Editor button can be used to hide or show the editor.

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Step 5 − Open the www.youtube.com website and find the video you want to add. There is a Share button under the video, click on it.

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Step 6 − Under the Share button, click on the embed link. It opens a small text area, then copy the code.

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Step 7 Go to your page and paste the code which was copied from the embed field and click on the Save Page button.

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Step 8 − Open your website and you can see the video on the page you just edited.

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Magento – Setup Facebook Likes

Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus have become powerful for promoting the web shops. Facebook provides “Like” button which allows users to share contents of the products across the web.

The following steps show you how to add Facebook Like button for your Magento products −

Step 1 − Go to developer site of Facebook https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button and click on Get Code button.

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Step 2 − When you click on the Get Code button, a window will get appear as shown in the following screen.

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Step 3 − Open the file i.e. /app/design/frontend/base/default/template/productalert/product/view.phtml in the Magento and paste the below code around the line 50.

<div class = "fb-like" data-href = "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/"

   data-layout = "standard" data-action = "like" data-show-faces = "true"

   data-share = "true">

</div>

Step 4 − Go to the System menu and click on the Cache Management to refresh the cache.

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Step 5 − Under Cache Storage Management section, select the items from the Cache Type column for which you need to refresh the cache. Select the Refresh option from the Actions field on the right hand corner and click on Submit button to refresh the cache.

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Step 6 − After refreshing cache, logout from your admin panel and re-login. Refresh your product view page to see the Facebook like button.

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