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better description of disqus and google analytics setup #853

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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ Optionally, if you have a Disqus account, you can tell Jekyll to use it to show

:warning: `url`, e.g. `https://example.com`, must be set in you config file for Disqus to work.

To enable it, after setting the url field, you also need to add the following lines to your Jekyll site:
To enable it, after setting the url field, you need to add the following lines to your `_config.yml`:

```yaml
disqus:
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there are additional whitespaces here (before key disqus) as well.

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### Enabling Google Analytics

To enable Google Analytics, add the following lines to your Jekyll site:
To enable Google Analytics, after you set up your account there, add your measurement id the to your `_config.yml`:
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Too many commas in my opinion.

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To enable Google Analytics, after you set up your account there, add your measurement id the to your `_config.yml`:
To enable Google Analytics, first set up your account at Google Analytics and then add your *measurement id* the to
your `_config.yml`:

I feel linking to the GA documentation would be better as well.


```yaml
google_analytics: UA-NNNNNNNN-N
google_analytics: G-NNNNNNNNNN
```

Google Analytics will only appear in production, i.e., `JEKYLL_ENV=production`
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