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i have Google analytic account ,
I want to ban my ip in google analatic account ,
Thanks
If you have a static IP you can exclude it from Analytics quite easy by defining a filter containing your IP within Analytics.
If your ISP assigns you a dynamic IP the process gets slightly more complicated: You have to store a special cookie on all your PCs / browsers that will cause Analytics to disregard your visits to your own site. Setting this cookie can be done by creating an additional HTML page within your site; everyone who visits that page will receive the cookie and will therefore not be tracked by Analytics when surfing your website (therefore you might want to password protect that page or remove it after you created the cookie on your own computers).
Both methods are described on Google's Analytics support pages.
Note that both approaches will only exclude your IP from all future data captured by Analytics.
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I have tried analyzing Google Analytics Acquisition Reports for one of the websites that I work on (Publishing Platform). I see that traffic from Google Scholar here is considered as Referral Traffic. Isn't it supposed to be considered as Organic Traffic as Google Scholar is also a type of Search Engine?
Am I missing something? Or is this an exception?
Because it is not recognized as a Google Search Domain.
Here you can find list about default search engine list recognized ad organic-search sources: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2795821?hl=en#zippy=%2Cin-this-article
The related definition for Google is All Google Search domains. Here you can find list of all Google search domains: https://www.google.com/supported_domains and https://scholar.google.com/ is not in the list.
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A checkout flow goes like this:
user picks a product and goes in checkout flow on mydomain.com
user pays on otherdomain.com
user is redirected to a thank you page on mydomain.com
The problem:
All source/channel for the conversions were marked referral from otherdomain.com
What I tried:
Adding otherdomain.com to exlused domains in Universal Analytics. Referral is gone, but now the source shows"direct/none". No new session is started each time, but I still can't connect the dots.
I'm sure this issue pops up a lot, so I'm curious how you solve it.
Bonus question: a few guides suggested we should exclude mydomain.com too. Why is that?
Your domain should be excluded to avoid self-referrals, while for the payment gateway you have to put the domain in referral exclusion (as you did). The trick is that it becomes direct traffic so the previous source is attributed to the session (i.e. organic, paid, ...). However, even if the session itself is direct, it will be direct.
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Over the last few weeks I have seen a lot of 00:00:00 sessions come from spamming servers. I want a way to not only block them in Analytics but also in cPanel if possible.
If anyone knows the best way to remove all spamming hostnames please share.
Blocking Spam Traffic From within Google Analytics
You can use a combination of 2 filters to stop all the spam in google analytics:
A Valid Hostname Filter that will take care of all ghost spam in any
form (referral, organic or fake direct visit)
A Campaign Source Filter with an expression built with all the known Crawlers Spam.
As an extra you can enable the built-in feature “Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders“, this option will exclude all the traffic from bots/crawlers that are not spam but they aren’t human visits either.
You can read more here http://www.ohow.co/what-is-referrer-spam-how-stop-it-guide/
Blocking Spam Traffic From cPanel
You can use IP Deny Manager within cPanel to block spam referrals.
You can read more here http://geekflare.com/block-spam-referral-traffic-to-your-website-through-cpanel/
This my sound a bit too easy but you could just delay the call of
ga('send', 'pageview') //May look different due to different Goggle Analytics Code
for like 50ms-1s. This will only record those users who stay at least 50ms-1s.
I don't know what will be the best time setting but this seems to be the easy way to do it.
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Is it necessary to have both GA and Quantcast in your website? I'm seeing a lot of websites use both of them but what's the point of using both of them when either one does the same thing? Sorry if this is a dumb question.
No, it's not necessary, but do keep in mind that Google Analytics and Quantcast are doing two different things.
Google Analytics focusses on telling you how people use your website. This includes things like referral pages and keywords, entry and exit pages, page views, and click patterns. Google Analytics tells you about the page views of your website.
Quantcast focuses on telling you the nature of your website's audience. This includes things like the users' demographics and psychographics, other sites your users tend to visits, what businesses and industries they represent, and cross platform (online, mobile, and app) engagement and retention. Quantcast tells you about the page viewers of your website (also referred to as your website's audience).
In many ways, Google Analytics and Quantcast Measure are very complementary services.
Disclaimer - I work at Quantcast
Is it necessary to have both GA and Quantcast in your website?
No it is not necessary.
You may check out how they differ in this article.
Non-Quantified Data
Quantcast offers a separate service for those who do not participate
in the program to track quantified data. The program for
non-quantified data provides public statistics for millions of Web
properties. Users of the Quantcast site use the search engine on the
main page to look up the name of any website. Each website has its own
stats page. A website with a small number of visitors will not
necessarily display results due to insufficient data. Google Analytics
does not provide non-quantified data. You must use the tracking code
to use Analytics, and your statistics are not open to the public.
Methods
Google Analytics uses cookies to track visitors. Quantcast uses
cookies and a separate people-based estimate called "cookie-corrected
audience data." This estimate is different from both Analytics and
Quantcast cookie-based statistics. The number of visitors tends to be
lower for people-based estimates. Statistical measures, such as the
number of overall visits and average pages viewed, tend to increase.
what's the point of using both of them when either one does the same
thing?
You may find the answer to this Why should I use Quantcast, Alexa or Compete, when I have Google Analytics
I am using both of them and what is mentioned about quantcast is right that it has a diffferent look at traffic ..in fact at one point I was worried that it may not be appropriate to use 2 codes to measure the same traffic but I think they work fine
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What is the best way to get information about traffic sources of visitors on my web application? I want to store that information in database after every created an account by user.
I know that is possibility to get that information from google analytics cookies (utm*). But some browser extensions like adblock are blocking these cookies.
If by traffic source you mean: were where the user before landing into your web site, you could capture the document.referrer value.
you may get visitor IP-Address for unique visitor.
Which technology you are used?
If you are used PHP Technology.Here is the code for find IP
echo SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
main point is which types of traffic you want? means organic, social or referral traffics.
there are many ways to get traffics:
- if your site is new, best option is paid marketing like PPC, PR etc.
- your site is old then guest posting with high DA is best option. apart from social media traffics is also good option. now a days you can also get targeted social media traffics with Facebook paid marketing.
here are some of google links which you will get good tips
http://neilpatel.com/2016/03/22/how-to-increase-website-traffic-without-seo/
http://www.thecrazythinkers.com/11-killer-tips-increase-traffic-website-blog/
if you will get specific need, i will guide you with exact answer.