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You need to make sure that the physical placement of the file matches your
reference.
Here is a summary of the steps for how to install the tracking script:
1.
Go to the Yahoo! Web analytics website and log in to your account.
2.
Select the installation tab and follow the two-page setup process. on the second
page, you will receive the tracking script for your website's pages and a tracking
script include file.
3.
i strongly recommend that you upload the tracking script include file to the root
directory of your web server.
4.
Select the Yahoo! Web analytics tracking script and copy it to the clipboard.
Make sure you have selected all the code.
5.
open your HtMl page in a text editor and paste the code into the body section
of your page, directly above the closing body tag
</BODY>
.
6.
repeat steps 4 and 5 for every page on your website that you want Yahoo! Web
analytics to track.
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Figure 1.3 shows a simple web page as an example:
http://visualrevenue.com/
.
Figure 1.3
Simple HTML page
applying these steps and viewing the HtMl source for the page will give you
a direct idea of where to place the tracking script and how it relates to the rest of the
HtMl code.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www
.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd”>
<html>
<head>
