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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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Data Mining: The Ultimate Guide to Niche Analysis

Viper Chill

Niche research is a little like viewing your website analytics where it’s really pointless checking your stats if they don’t lead to you making any site changes. 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.

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Who You Are

Ari Herzog

According to Google Analytics , 923 people visited my blog during the month of January 2015. Most arrived here directly by typing my blog URL into your browser. With a wonderful 7% bounce rate (indicating 93% of you are reading more than one page), there was a total of 1,115 sessions. A session is a visit. Many returned.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Should I Change My URLs for SEO? Local SEO Tracking: How to Track Offline Conversions : Whether it’s by custom URLs or custom phone numbers, offline conversions can be tracked thanks to a bit of analytics know-how. Have a look. This beginner SEO question comes up often. Communication is key!

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