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Google Analytics 4 setup in Digital Marketing - Mini Project: Build & Apply

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Google Analytics 4 Setup

📖 Scenario: You are a small business owner who wants to understand how visitors use your website. You decide to set up Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to track user activity and improve your website.

🎯 Goal: Learn how to create a GA4 property, configure data streams, and add the tracking code to your website to start collecting visitor data.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a Google Analytics 4 property with the exact name 'My Business GA4'

Set up a web data stream with the URL 'https://www.mybusiness.com'

Configure the data stream to collect enhanced measurement events

Add the GA4 tracking code snippet to the website's HTML <head> section

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Businesses use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors interact with their websites and apps, helping them improve user experience and marketing strategies.

💼 Career

Digital marketers, web developers, and business analysts often set up and use GA4 to track website performance and user behavior.

Progress0 / 4 steps

Create a GA4 Property

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# Create a GA4 property named 'My Business GA4'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the Google Analytics admin panel to add a new property and name it exactly My Business GA4.

Set Up a Web Data Stream

Within the My Business GA4 property, create a web data stream with the website URL set to https://www.mybusiness.com.

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# Add a web data stream with URL 'https://www.mybusiness.com'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

In the property settings, choose to add a data stream and select 'Web'. Enter the exact URL https://www.mybusiness.com.

Enable Enhanced Measurement

Configure the web data stream to enable Enhanced measurement so that events like page views and scrolls are automatically tracked.

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# Enable enhanced measurement for the web data stream
# Your code here

Need a hint?

In the data stream details, toggle on the Enhanced measurement option to track common user interactions automatically.

Add GA4 Tracking Code to Website

Copy the GA4 tracking code snippet provided in the web data stream settings and add it inside the <head> section of your website's HTML.

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 tag of your website HTML -->
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Paste the full GA4 tracking snippet exactly as provided, replacing G-XXXXXXXXXX with your measurement ID, inside the <head> tag.