I created a wordpress website on google cloud platform.
I bought my domain from google domains.
But people in some countries cannot access my website, they have to use VPN.
Is there any way to unblock that countries?
Unfortunately there's no way to unblock traffic. It's not a Google's decision, but US government'. For more information have a look at the documentation Google Cloud Platform Territory List and Countries or regions where Google Workspace is available. As a result, VPN is the only option.
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I have a client who is using Office 365 for email and has changed the nameservers on Google Domains to point to Microsoft nameservers (ns1.bdm.microsoftonline.com, etc), so he can utilize the #domainname.com email extension (and other Office products). Unfortunately, this is messing with my normal groove on how to link my Firebase React projects with Google Domains via adding resource values (i.e. # A record with a value of 111.111.1.111) because as Google warns me right there:
It looks like you've changed your name servers. All settings for your domain (including website, email, synthetic records and resource records) are currently disabled. To enable these settings, you will need to restore the Google Domains name servers.
I can't restore these nameservers to Google, because it will mess/disable his emails. So what to do? I have exhausted my Google searches for an answer, and unsure of what direction to look for an answer. How do I link up my app with Firebase hosting with my Google Domain's domain while still maintaining Office 365 #domainname.com email extension for my client? Maybe I need to add the records on Microsoft's side? Do I need him to transition to GSuite? I'd prefer not to tell him he needs to, but maybe that's the only solution!
It's a bit misleading. The domain is with Google Domains, and Google is saying "All settings for your domain that you might expect us to manage via Google Domains" are disabled - meaning you can't manage them in Google Domains. Instead, they have to be managed in Office 365 (or wherever the nameservers are).
You can get the ip addresses Firebase gives you, send them to your client, and instruct them to update the domain's main A record and www A record (or CNAME) to point to the Firebase ip addresses.
Everything will work just fine - it's just Google telling you that it no longer manages the DNS for the domain.
I built a Social Network, and i would like to know how can i be seen as Social Network in Google Analytics for the traffic i send?
Thank you
You will be once your network grows significant enough for Google add it to their default grouping.
The other option is for you to add a “linker” something to be between your site and the sites you’re sending traffic to.
Example:
Someone posts a link to www.mysite.com on your site.
Your site modified that site to www.mysocialnetwork.com/links?redirect=www.mysite.com?utm_source=mysocialnetwork&utm_medium=social
But the above would only work if the sites you’re redirecting to also uses GA.
I can't find this answer in the official documentation.
I'm tracking google analytics data on mycustomerwebsite.com
But the website is also working and reachable in seofriendlydomain.com
Website is the same, so I include analytics.js data in both of them.
My customer asks, to know how much traffic comes from each domain,
not needing complete data but only few stuff like % of incoming visitors or number.
I found similar topics:
Google Analytics multiple domains one website
Why there is no answer ? is there no solution ?
As I understood, using Google Analytics, I can create a tracking code that I can embed into any application of website. However, is it receive a specific URL that is used for tracking the whole application in order for me to whitelist the traffic with my ISP so that I can charge the traffic for FREE for that specific URL - rather than whitelist the traffic of all google analytics (Which the ISP cannot do due to the heavy traffic generated by it) ?
You do not need to whitelist any traffic from your ISP. GA tracking works by collecting data from visitors to your site and has nothing to do with all other traffic on sites hosted by your ISP. As long as you have your tracking code on all of your own pages, then your site traffic will be tracked.
I have an Intranet application which is accessible from within company firewall. To track some specific pages, I want to implement Google Analytics in my Intranet application. This application is accessible from outside only when user system has some specific certificate installed.
Is it possible to implement Google Analytics in my Intranet application?
Will this Google analytics work inside company firewall?
How Google analytics work i.e. what is the actual flow of google analytics?
Yes, Google analytics can be used for internal web applications too. Please visit this URL which will clear your doubts. If you click on the given link and able to access analytics.js file from your internal network you can use Google analytics for your internal applications protected from corporate firewall.
Please note that after implementation, tracking data would be available around 24 hours only. So, you need to wait for 24 hours first. Even if you are not able to view the tracking data, please visit this link. You will find the possible reasons behind not working your analytics code.
In order for Analytics to generate reports for your corporate intranet
usage, your corporate network must be able to reach the Analytics
JavaScript file (analytics.js).
...
Your intranet must also be accessible
through a fully qualified domain name such as
http:// intranet.example.com. The Analytics JavaScript won't work if
your intranet can only be accessed using a domain name that isn't
fully qualified, such as http:// intranet
Ref: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1009688?hl=en
In your example, if a person without the certificate you mentioned can still reach the domain (that is, there is a public DNS entry for the domain name) even if they get an 'access denied' or similar message, the tracking should still work.
Google Analytics is Software as a Service and runs on the Google Servers. If your clients cannot reach the Google server than you cannot send tracking data and Google Analytics will not show anything. You may need to adjust your firewall rules to let calls to the Analytics servers pass (are you that you want a third party javascript to send data from your intranet to the internet, though ? There might be legal ramifications, too, after all implementing a script basically means to hand control of the clients to a third party).
If the server for your intranet is connected to the internet you could collect all hits in a log and pipe this to Google Analytics.
However Google Analytics might not be the best choice. You most certainly do not need campaign data, you probably do not have ecommerce in your company and depending on your type of company geo data and technology data might not be relevant (after all you probably know what computers your employees use and where they are). And for a page counter a self hosted solution will do just as well.
Google Analytics requires that you place a script on each page you wish to track. Whenever a page with the script is loaded, the script runs and sends data to GA, so your users must be connected to the internet as well as the intranet for their usage statistics to register. One security issue to consider is the titles of your intranet's pages will be sent externally across the intranet, which your IT security may have an issue with.
For basic intranet analytics, I'd recommend starting with Piwik which is open source and installs on your server.
It will give you a lot of initial usage data and if your customer decides they want more, you can look into more sophisticated products.