[TheBlackPoet]

listen... trust me when i say this... if you put the code in the footer... you are doing the analytics a great dis-service... because the footer comes up no matter what page you go to.., you are not getting all of what GA is offering...

in order for analytics to work it has to be in a part of the site that is unique from other pages... the body pages are unique. when you put the code in the footer .. you are not getting the results such as site overlay, landing page, bounce rates.., etc....

but if you think its effective for you to put it in the footer... by all means.... do what you do!!

as far #7 is concerned...

In the directions, I think step two tells me to cut and paste the google code into each template, just before the </body>

But it sounds like step three is doing that with the replacement variable,

Is step 2 just telling me what step three is going to do?

no, dont manually put the code in each template... i believe what i meant to say was if you have more than one style........ do this.... but you have the right idea.. about the replacement variable.. that's what i suggested you do...