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How Bloggers and Webmasters Violate Your Privacy With Google Analytics

Ari Herzog

of bloggers and other webmasters around the world use a free tool called Google Analytics to track website visitors and click-through metrics. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. If the above title drew you in, good. Keep reading.

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The New Writer’s Guide to Evaluating Websites for Guest Posting Opportunities

ProBlogger

It’s also now evident that Google has no love for low-quality sites and inbound links from them. Check site:sitename.com in Google to see if the site is banned from the SERPs (no results means a Google ban). Try Compete, Quantcast and Alexa, but be aware that none offer completely accurate data.

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Data Mining: The Ultimate Guide to Niche Analysis

Viper Chill

Basically it lets you see which websites use the same hosting company, have the same IP addresses and use the same Google Analytics and Google Adsense tracking codes. Quantcast Visitor Demographics. Below is Quantcast’s estimation as to which sites people visit after Reddit. Google Reader Subscriber Counts.