so Google verified my site …

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  buyathread · Member · Nov 22, 2008 at 4:17 pm

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  Thanks to the good information on the forum, I finally got my site verified and Googlebots will presumable be crawling. Cool, but what additional information will I get from it and how to I access it? TIA

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  teck07 · Member · Nov 22, 2008 at 5:15 pm

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  You can access it with your Google credentials.

  Bassicially Google will tell you stats about your
  site like broken links duplicate links & so on.

  Keep in mind that it’s basic information.

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  teck07 · Member · Nov 22, 2008 at 5:19 pm

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  if your looking for more information centered around stats
  then I recommend using site meter or statcounter.

  Statcounter
  http://statcounter.com/

  site meter
  http://sitemeter.com/

  Both are free to use.

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  buyathread · Member · Nov 22, 2008 at 5:31 pm

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  Thanks, teck07, but the stats that I already get make me nuts enough : )

  Welcome, Googlebots!

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  teck07 · Member · Nov 22, 2008 at 6:28 pm

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  Your welcome! buyathread, :)

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  buyathread · Member · Nov 22, 2008 at 6:32 pm

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  Uh, I spoke too soon. Damn, I knew it was too easy!

  I screwed up this morning and created a POST, not a PAGE with the Google code so what do I do now? I’d like to do what justjennifer (?) did and make a child to my About page but haven’t the slightest idea how to do that.

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  sensuouscurmudgeon · Member · Nov 22, 2008 at 6:53 pm

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  Don’t panic. Just edit to change the date of the post to a few months ago, then ignore it. Google can always find it.

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  buyathread · Member · Nov 22, 2008 at 7:01 pm

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  @ sensuouscurmudgeon – I did panic first, but then made a child to my About page and now that ugly google code is in my bottom bar. So the easiest thing now is to create a backdated post, like you suggested.

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  sensuouscurmudgeon · Member · Nov 22, 2008 at 8:01 pm

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  My Google recognition thingie has been a back-dated post for months. In fact, I dated it as the first post in my blog. No worries, ever. I ignore it, none of my readers has ever seen it, and Google seems to have no problem finding it.

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  buyathread · Member · Nov 22, 2008 at 8:12 pm

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  I just did the same thing and am relieved to have finally gotten the verification thing out of the way. Thank you for your help, sensuouscurmudgeon.

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  ologundudu · Member · Dec 7, 2008 at 1:06 pm

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  does anyone know if its possible to use google analytics with WP, if your not using a self-host domain?? i.e. blah.wordpresscom vs. blah.com

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 7, 2008 at 1:13 pm

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  No, it’s not. WP.com is already running it on our blogs, and you can’t have two installs of the same thing on one blog, so you can’t add Google Analytics.

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  ologundudu · Member · Dec 7, 2008 at 1:18 pm

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  ok. i just feel like the stats are not accurate, and i’ve tried to use getclicky.com but wasnt sure where to put the code, or if that would work.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 7, 2008 at 1:19 pm

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  All stat counters count slightly different things. No two will ever entirely agree.