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How to Add a Second Website to Your Google Analytics Property: A Step-by-Step Guide

Adding a second website to an existing Google Analytics property is a common task for many digital marketers and website owners. Whether you’re managing multiple sites for a client or expanding your online presence, the good news is that you can easily track multiple websites under the same Google Analytics account.

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of adding a second website to your Google Analytics property, ensuring all your data is accurately tracked and easily accessible.

Why You Might Need to Add a Second Website to Google Analytics

Before diving into the how-to, it’s important to understand why adding a second website to your Google Analytics property might be beneficial. By consolidating your websites under a single Google Analytics account, you can:

  • Streamline Data Management: Monitor multiple sites without switching between accounts.
  • Comprehensive Reporting: Compare performance metrics across different websites from a single dashboard.
  • Centralized Data: Simplify the process of analyzing traffic sources, user behavior, and conversion rates across all your sites.

Getting Started: Preparing to Add a Second Website

Let’s assume you already have a Google Analytics property set up for your main website. Now, with the launch of a second website, you’ll want to ensure both sites are tracked under the same account. This makes it easier to manage and compare data across multiple properties.

Step 1: Creating a New Google Analytics Property

The first step in adding a second website is to create a new property within your existing Google Analytics account. Follow these instructions:

1. Access the Admin Section:

Log in to your Google Analytics account and navigate to the Admin section, located at the bottom-left of the screen.

2. Create a New Property:

Under the “Property” column, click on the “Create Property” button.

3. Enter Website Details:

Provide the necessary information for your new website, including the website name, timezone, industry category, and business size. This information helps Google Analytics tailor reports and insights specific to your industry.

4. Choose Business Objectives:

For this example, we chose to receive reports that examine user behavior on how they use the website.

5. Data Sharing Settings:

Choose the appropriate data sharing settings. These settings determine how your data is shared with Google and other services.

6. Set Up the Data Stream and Finalize the Setup:

Obtain the URL of your client’s homepage from Go HighLevel. Navigate to Sites > Websites, and copy the homepage URL.

Remove the “https://” prefix and paste the URL into the provided field. Name the property using your client’s name plus the word “website.”

Click “Create” to complete the setup process for the new property.

Step 2: Installing the Google Analytics Tracking Code on the Second Website

With your new property created, the next step is to install the Google Analytics tracking code on your second website. This code is essential for tracking visitor data and activity on your site.

1. Locate the Tracking Code:

In your new property, navigate to the “Tracking Info” section and copy the tracking code snippet provided by Google Analytics.

2. Insert the Code into Your Website:

Access the backend settings of your second website. Paste the tracking code into the header section of your site, just before the closing </head> tag. 

In this case, we are accessing the website using GoHighLevel.

  • Go to Go HighLevel: Navigate to your client’s website settings in Go HighLevel.
  • Paste Tracking Code: In the main website settings, paste the tracking code into the “Head Tracking Code” section.
  • Save Changes: Click “Save” to apply the changes.

Step 3: Verifying the Installation of the Tracking Code

To ensure that your Google Analytics tracking code is working correctly on the second website, it’s crucial to verify the installation.

1. Test the Tracking Installation:

Return to the Google Analytics interface and click on “Test Track Installation” within the “Tracking Info” section.

2. Confirm Successful Tag Detection:

If the tag is detected correctly, you’ll receive a confirmation message indicating that Google Analytics is successfully tracking data from your second website.

Initially, you may see a message indicating that data collection is inactive. This is normal and should resolve within 48 hours. After this period, Google Analytics will start tracking visitor activity, including metrics such as bounce rate and session duration.

What’s Next? Managing Multiple Websites in Google Analytics

Now that you’ve successfully added a second website to your Google Analytics property, you can enjoy the benefits of centralized data management. Here are a few tips for managing multiple websites:

  • Utilize Filters: Set up filters to segment data by website, allowing you to analyze each site individually.
  • Custom Dashboards: Create custom dashboards for each website to focus on specific metrics relevant to each site’s goals.
  • Set Up Goals: Define goals for each website to track conversions and other key actions.

Adding a second website to your Google Analytics property is a straightforward process that can greatly enhance your ability to manage and analyze multiple sites. By following the steps outlined in this guide, you can ensure that all your websites are accurately tracked, providing you with the insights needed to optimize performance.

If you found this guide helpful, be sure to check out our other resources on Google Analytics and digital marketing strategies. Have any questions or need further assistance? Leave a comment below or contact us directly—we’re here to help!

How To Set Up Google Analytics With GHL

In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps to create a new Google Analytics property and integrate it with Go HighLevel. Follow these steps to ensure accurate tracking and data collection for your website.

Step 1: Sign In to Google Analytics

Begin by signing into your Google Analytics account. Once logged in, navigate to your admin settings.

Step 2: Create a New Account

In the admin settings, click on “Create” and then select “Account.” Here, you will create a new account for your client or project.

Account Name: Enter your client’s name or the name of the project.

Data Sharing Settings: Choose whether to share data. For this example, we will opt out of data sharing but you can adjust these settings later.

Step 3: Set Up Property Details

Next, you will need to provide details for the new property.

  1. Property Name: Enter your client’s name again for the property name.
  2. Time Zone: Select the appropriate time zone (e.g., Eastern Standard Time for New York).
  3. Currency: Choose the relevant currency (e.g., US Dollar).

Click “Next” to proceed.

Step 4: Business Details

Provide information about the business.

  1. Business Category: Select the category that best describes your client’s business.
  2. Business Size: Specify the size of the business.

Business Objectives: Choose the primary objectives for using Google Analytics. For this example, we will select “Examine the user behavior.”

Click “Create” to finalize the setup.

Step 5: Accept Terms of Service

Review and accept the Google Analytics Terms of Service to proceed.

Step 6: Choose a Platform

To start collecting data, select the platform you will be using. For this guide, we will focus on setting up a property for the web.

  1. Platform: Choose “Web.”
  2. Website URL: Obtain the URL of your client’s homepage from Go HighLevel. Navigate to Sites > Websites, and copy the homepage URL.

Remove the “https://” prefix and paste the URL into the provided field. Name the property using your client’s name plus the word “website.”

Enhanced Measurements: Leave this option enabled.

Click “Create and Continue” to proceed.

Step 7: Install Tracking Code Manually

You have two options for installing the tracking code: manually or via Google Tag Manager. For this guide, we will install it manually.

Copy Tracking Code: Click “Copy” to copy the tracking code to your clipboard.

  1. Go to Go HighLevel: Navigate to your client’s website settings in Go HighLevel.
  2. Paste Tracking Code: In the main website settings, paste the tracking code into the “Head Tracking Code” section.
  3. Save Changes: Click “Save” to apply the changes.

Step 8: Verify Installation

To ensure the tracking code is correctly installed, follow these steps:

  1. Refresh Website: Go to your client’s website and refresh the page.
  2. Test Installation: Return to Google Analytics and click on “Test Installation.” Google Analytics should confirm that the tracking code was detected on the website.

Step 9: Wait for Data Collection

Initially, you may see a message indicating that data collection is inactive. This is normal and should resolve within 48 hours. After this period, Google Analytics will start tracking visitor activity, including metrics such as bounce rate and session duration.

Bonus: Adding Users to Your Google Analytics Property

As a bonus, here’s how to add team members to the newly created Google Analytics property so they can access the data and make changes.

  1. Open the Property: Go to the newly created property in Google Analytics.
  2. Admin Settings: Click on your admin settings.
  3. Account Access Management: Within the admin settings, click on “Account Access Management.”
  4. Add Users: Click on the plus sign (+) and then select “Add Users.”
  5. Enter User Details: Enter the email address of the team member you want to add. Make sure they get the notification by email.
  6. Assign Roles: Choose the role for the new user. For example, you can assign the “Admin” role if the person needs full access.
  7. Data Restrictions: If necessary, set data restrictions for the user.
  8. Click Add: Finally, click “Add.”

The new user will receive an email notification and can then accept the invitation to access the Google Analytics property.

Setting up a Google Analytics property and integrating it with Go HighLevel is straightforward. By following these steps, you can ensure that your client’s website is properly tracked, providing valuable insights into user behavior and site performance.

Step-by-Step Guide: How to Create/Add a Contact Form in GoHighLevel And How To Add Email Automations (Part 1)

When someone submits a form on your site, do you want your website to work for you by contacting that person via automations? 

If so you are in the right place. In this article, we’re going to cover:

  • how to create a contact form in GoHighLevel
  • how to add that form to your website
  • how to add a set of email automations that contacts that prospect for you with helpful info about your company. 

And don’t worry if your website is not in GoHighLevel …

We will cover how to add a contact form to a GoHighLevel site and to a non-GoHighLevel site.

Creating forms and setting up email automations in GoHighLevel can significantly enhance your marketing efforts. This guide will walk you through the entire process, making it easy for you to embed forms on your website and automate your email responses.

Let’s get started! 

Step 1 – Creating A Form In GoHighLevel

The most common form on a website is one where a prospect actually fills out their contact info, and then you get in touch with them. So, that’s the example we’re going to use and create today. 

To get started, you’ll need to create a form.

So, log in to GoHighLevel and click on “Sites” in the left main menu.

Then, in the top menu, click on Forms > Builder.

Click on “Create New Form.”

You can see GoHighLevel gives us a starting point with this generic form.

First things first, let’s name the form. You can see it’s currently named “Form 0” at the very top. 

For this example, this form is going to be on my contact page of a sample law firm site. So, I’m going to call the form “Contact Form – Website.”

Now, you may choose to use the default fields that GoHighLevel gives you or you can personalize them.

In this case, we are going to personalize them. You have a better chance of someone filling out a shorter form.  So, we are going to delete the “First Name” and “Last Name” fields by hovering over them and clicking the “x.”

Then, we will add the “Full Name” field instead.  

To do this, click on the “Add Form Element” button.  It is the plus sign at the top left of the screen.

Then, select “Full Name” and drag it on to the form at the top.

Now, your prospect has to enter their full name, their email, and their phone number. 

The Asterisk next to the field name means that it is a required field. So if you want people to enter the field, be sure that you have “Required” checked on the right.

In this example, we are not going to require texts. We just are going to have them enter their phone number, so we can get in touch with them as a prospect. Therefore, we will get rid of the SMS permissions field as well by clicking on the “x” again for this field.

Custom Fields in GoHighLevel

In our example, we want to allow people to write a message when they submit the contact form. Because we are using a sample law firm website, we are going to ask for some information about their case.  

To do this, we need to create a Custom Field in GoHighLevel.

This will require you to save the form and click on the “Back” button in the upper left-hand corner so you can see the main left-hand menu again.

Then, click on “Settings”, which is the last choice of the main menu on the left.

Then, once you are in the “Settings” menu, click on “Custom Fields.”

Click on “Add Field” in the upper right-hand corner.

As you can see, you can create almost any type of field, such as dates, times, text etc.

In this example, we are going to choose “Multi-Line.”

You will name your custom field, which is the “Label” of the field on the form.  You can also select a default value if you would like for the “Placeholder” field.

In the “Group” field, you will select where you want your custom field to show in the Contact’s profile. I almost always select “Additional Info” so my fields are separated from the default GoHighLevel fields.

Finally, if you expand the “Additional preferences” section, you can see what GoHighLevel is going to name the field within its unique keys. You can add a description of the field here, as well.

For this example, we named the field “Tell Us About Your Case” and selected “Additional Info” for the Group.

Click Save and your custom GoHighLevel field is live!

Click on “Go Back” to return to the “Form Builder” section and click on your form to open it again.

Now when you look at the available Form Elements, click on the “Custom Fields” tab to see your new field available to add.

Drag that element onto the form.

So now we have the full name, the email, the phone number, and tell us about your case. 

Do you want to add additional text to the GoHighLevel form? 

Maybe add a heading at the top?

Go back to the form elements and scroll to the bottom.  This is where the static elements are, like text and images.

For this example, let’s add a title to the form.

Grab the “Text” element and drag it to the top of the form.

You can add the title text in the settings on the right.

You can also change the font, font weight, color etc. using these settings as well.

At the bottom of the form, you can see that they by default provide you with a placeholder to put links to your “Privacy Policy” and your “Terms of Service.” You can delete the whole element if you would like to be clicking on that “x” to the right when you hover over the element.

However, because it is a form where people are entering data, for legal reasons, it is a GREAT idea to leave that text there and link to the policies that your website has.

To create that link, make sure that you have the text element selected on the form and highlight the “Privacy Policy” text.  

Once it’s highlighted, click on the 3 vertical dots symbol to get more options for the menu and select the symbol for the hyperlink.

This will trigger a pop-up where you will add the link to your website’s privacy policy and click on “Confirm.”

Once you click “Confirm,” you have an active URL.

Repeat this process and add the link to the terms of service. Be sure to click “Save” so all of your hard work is saved!

Now that the form is basically completed, let’s talk about the button, that bright shiny button that you want people to click!

So, you need to click on the button to bring up all of the settings on the right.

First, instead of the word “Button,” change the text to be something that will encourage users to submit their data.

In this example, we are just going to put “Submit Your information.”

In addition, there is an option to add “Sub Text,” which can explain the button’s use a bit more. It’s fairly popular to add a small message about not selling the data that is being submitted, so that is what we will change that text to.

Once you have your  text finalized, you will want to change the color of the button and the text so that it goes along with your branding.

Scroll down through the settings and you’ll find the ability to change the background, the text color and the sub text color.

In this example, we are going to change the button to be blue and all of the text to be white.

We now have a great looking button that will go within our website. Click Save to finish that part.

Once you have the form fields set up and the button the way you want it, it’s time to complete the general form information to finish the form up.

To get to this section called “Styles and Options,” click on the “Styles and Options” icon, which looks like 2 toggles in the upper-right corner of the screen.

If you scroll through everything that is available to you under “Styles,” there are a lot of changes you can make.

You can toggle agency branding on and off, you add a background image, you can add a header image, you can add custom CSS, etc. Basically, you can change the look of the form to be anything that you want it to be.

These settings are a bit more complicated and will be gone over more thoroughly in an upcoming video.  In this example, we are going to leave those alone and go to the “Options” tab.

Whenever a form is submitted, there are two main options (for this example) that can happen. The form can show a message that the form was submitted successfully, or the form can take you to a different URL.

So if you click on “Open URL,” you can actually put a whole new different page on here. A lot of people will choose this option if they are tracking conversions using Google Ads or Facebook Ads.  

Since this is a simple example, we are just going to have a success message.

The default success message that the form gives you is “Thank you for taking the time to complete this form.”

This message is fine, but I normally like to add a small bit at the end to customize it to my business tone…so, I added, “We will be in touch as soon as possible.” 

I like to give people a timeline for their submissions. If you want to add a line like this, add a timeline that you are comfortable with.  Most service-based businesses will include a message about being in touch within the next 5-15 minutes.

One more thing that is unique to GoHighLevel – “Sticky Contact.”

If you scroll the whole way to the bottom of the “Options” section, you’ll see a toggle for “Sticky Contact” turned off by default. If you turn this on, it will auto-complete the forms for the prospect if they have ever submitted anything else on your website before.

While this speeds up the process a little bit, we generally recommend keeping this turned off for a one-step form to our clients. If there are two steps, two sets of forms to complete, then we recommend turning this on.

For this example, we are leaving it turned off.

Don’t forget to click “Save” when you have completed all of the final steps for the form!

To summarize the entire form, a prospect will fill in their name, email, phone number and hopefully a little bit of information about their case. They will press the submit button and they will see a message thanking them and letting them know that someone will be in touch soon.

Let’s move on to part two, which is adding this form to the website. 

Step 2 - How to Add A GoHighLevel Form To A Website

Adding our new form to a GoHighLevel website is fairly straightforward.

In this example, I will be adding the form to the “Contact” page of a sample law firm website.

Go to your GoHighLevel website page that you want to add the form to and click on “Edit.”

Once we are inside the contact page, you will want to decide where you want to add the form.

Click on “Add Element” where you want the form to be located.

Then, select the “Form” element.

Once you click on the “Form” element, this will bring up a pop-up that has all of your available forms for the website.

Select the form that you just created in Part 1 of this article.

Once the form is selected, the screen will refresh and you should see the form that you created within the webpage.

Click “Save” and your form is ready to go for your website.

So, that is a very quick and easy way to add a form to your website using GoHighLevel. 

What do you do if you have a website that is NOT in GoHighLevel?

This is fairly easy as well.

Go back to the form that you created in Part 1 and click on the “Integrate button.”

The “Integrate” button gives you a bunch of options for different things that you can do with the form.

In most cases, people want to embed the form on their website. This means that they are going to choose the “Inline” option, which is the default.

Then, click on the “Copy Embed Code” button.

This button gives you all of the code needed to place your form on any website, no matter what that website is coded in. So, you can use WordPress, Wix, SquareSpace, Drupal etc.

Then, open the website editor where you want the form to be and add an HTML element to it. Once you can add code to the HTML editor, paste the embed code to your editor.

The code will look something like this:

Save the code and you should have a form that looks exactly like the one that you created in GoHighLevel embedded on your website.

Check out Part 2 of this article, which will create the automation set that alerts you to the submission and sends the prospect a set of emails!