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8 Stupid Things Webmasters Do To Mess Up Their Analytics

Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 3:14 am
Posted By: jameskm03 400 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Web Analytics

Web Analytics Optimization is important too! Web Analytics are very valuable but it’s so easy for them to become useless if your not tracking what you want. Maybe your a small company and you get all excited that you have 100 visits in a day, but realistically does that mean much if 98 of those were yourself?

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from Drupal 400 days ago #

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Thanks for the Sphinn!

from andrewburnett 400 days ago #

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hands up, I need to implement this tomorrow!!

On a Drupal site believe it or not :)

*chuckles to self

from SlightlyShadySEO 400 days ago #

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Excellent article. I'll admit to being guilty of a few of these.

from Drupal 400 days ago #

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I love how easy it is to implement GA on Drupal, the module takes care of everything so you can cross off "forgot to tag pages" from the list!!

from andrewburnett 400 days ago #

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Drupal rocks all round!

(the CMS I mean, although this was a damn fine post too :D)

from g1smd 400 days ago #

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I use cookies to exclude "staff" visits. I also supply a special parameter that can be used on the end of the URL to completely conceal your visit.

I also separate out pages views that are directly on the site, from the page views on alternative domains (such as the Google/Yahoo/Live/etc cache).

from Drupal 400 days ago #

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Good tips, g1smd!