Google Analytics Please !!!
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Ah, I see. I didn’t realize that you were asking about private blogs: both twocfaith and planabrand are visible to me. I don’t see why either would be private, and I find the idea of a branding website being private a little strange (although I can see that some would consider it a good idea).
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Oh… is that what they mean by private? I’m a little slow. So, I am not being counted. Terminology really gets me sometimes. I out-think myself. Thank you for the clarification. Not sure why I’m such a tough nut to crack.
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@twocfaith
If you had posted the link to the blog you were referring to when you first posted you would have received an answer very quickly. :) As your blog is linked to a public blog that was a distracting factor.See here for the Staff announcement on August 18, 2011 :
– Private blogs, which can be viewed only by users chosen by the administrator, now track the page views of all of their users. Traditionally we have omitted the views attributed to a blog’s own users because stats were meant to reflect the activity of the general public. However, this meant that private blogs had no useful stats reports. This change will be especially useful for private blogs that have many users. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/watch-your-traffic-grow-with-sparklines/
Oh… is that what they mean by private?
See here for the results of using the searchbox in support documentation > Settings » Privacy Settings
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I don’t know why Google partnered up with WordPress for this transition, but I would suspect that it was because WordPress had the horsepower and the framework to be able to do it and do it quickly. You might be pissed losing GA, but at least Google thought enough to provide you with a place to go instead of just turning you out on the street. Many others on now deceased platforms have not been so lucky, and Google has been known to pull plugs leaving users of their services high-and-dry.
I suspect there is probably a lot more to the “why we can’t use GA here” than any of us know or have thought of.
Knollers can certainly self-host wordpress installations on third-party hosting services such as dreamhost, dreamhost, etc., and then you can use GA. The beauty of moving first to wordpress.com is that your content is then in a WordPress format, so you can easily export it and import into a self-hosted site. All you would need is to get the Annotum theme and install it in the new self-hosted installation.
Prior to transferring to self-hosted, you would want to verify with staff here to make certain that the “articles” would export and import as articles in the new self-hosted installation/annotum setup, but that would be easily verified, and I would think that staff would make sure that it was possible.
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@timethief and others
There are many reasons to have Google Analytics on a WordPress Blog, not just to to do with Adsense.
For example, I would like to see the Visitors Flow on my blog which the new Google Analytics allows.
If WordPress.com offered a decent alternative, that would be fine. But the Stats feature is really basic and amateur.
I wish Matt and the guys at WordPress.com would actually read the forums and give us some features that we really need, instead of wasting time on New Premium Themes or stuff like Project 365 and Instant Feedback when you Publish.
But its good to see that so many people have voiced their support for Google Analytics on WordPress.com
Hopefully some day WordPress will sit up and listen…
Cheers
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Thanks Timethief !
Last time I was here on the forums, one active member like you flagged up a thread for staff to notice.
Can you do the same here ? Or can you tell me how to do so ?
Cheers
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Staff have had so many people requesting Google Analytics that flagging this for attention when Support is closed for a week is not going to help. Believe me, they’re aware that people want this.
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Oh ok. Thanks raincoaster!
Then it is just wait and hope, I guess…
P.S. Also, a BIG thank you for your advice in the past !
Your advice to have a blog on WordPress.com since the SEO power of WordPress.com and the tags are much better than an invidividually hosted blog using WordPress.org software led me to keep hosting my blog free of charge on WordPress.
So a bit thank you for that.
But dont you miss not having Google Analytics on your blog ?? How do you compensate ?
Cheers
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You’re welcome.
No, I don’t miss Google Analytics. I have too many blogs to keep track of all that information, and I went through my stats obsessed phase years ago. I like the short stats we get, and the graph, although I am not sold on the bar graph; it makes it harder to see trends. And the Referrers needs to be MUCH improved. But I find I can live with it.
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LOL I guess I am going through my stats obsessed phase now ;))
So what kind of optimization do you do then ?
Do you just see which blog posts are the most popular and write more of that type of blog post ?
Do you further highlight the popular blog posts on your blog ? or try and push the less popular ones by making them sticky ?
Cheers
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I just focus on Keywords. I don’t allow my readers or Google to dictate to me what I write, because my goal is not pointless SEO; my goal is to write brilliant blog posts.
And I’ve learned from long experience: you cannot force-feed the internet. Let it decide what it likes.
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It takes time. You’ll come to it when you’re ready. After all, if you’re blogging about a hotel in Goa, you have a finite amount of competition. Brilliant blog posts will raise you to the top. Nobody wants to read crap.
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True !!
But many websites/blogs just spam Google with keywords, backlinks and useless stale information and are still at the top of SERPs.
Which does make me feel a bit disheartened at times.
But I guess I have to keep writing and attract the readership that actually care for better blog posts…
Btw, how do you come up with keywords that you want to write about ? That has been my biggest problem till date (after the initial flurry).
Cheers
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But many websites/blogs just spam Google with keywords, backlinks and useless stale information and are still at the top of SERPs.
What are the terms YOU want to Google highly for? Blog about them. Follow the instructions here for keywords: http://raincoastermedia.com/2011/06/08/keywording-like-a-boss/
And NEVER “come up with keywords that you want to write about.” Come up with TOPICS that you want to write about them, write about them, and publish. Frequently.
If you want to know how to play the spammer’s game, I can’t teach you and even if I could I wouldn’t. Be better than that. I’ve gotten six million career hits by being better than that, so obviously taking the high road works.
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6 mio hits ? Wow! The high road does work then !
I will keep in mind your tips raincoaster!
Wish you a happy, prosperous and blog filled 2012 ;)
Cheers and God Bless!
Mihir
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I have 2 blogs that are public and both are visible directly and both are accessible through a web site as well. The web site has Google Analytics and it would be fantastic to have GA on the blogs to have one source of tracking for all of the integrated visits.
Thanks
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