Comments on: Google Analytics Goes Wonky

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:47:39 +0000

It might have been a Google crawl, Edward, but I’m doubting it, as I don’t think that’s where they are, plus it was sporadic as to who it affected. It did throw off my bounce rates, so I just ignored it for a month.

By: Edward

Edward — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:52:40 +0000

Hey there, it’s great to know that there are more bloggers out there who have large numbers of visitors from Montara.

I run a music review blog (www.ekaya.nl) in my native language: Dutch (I’m from The Netherlands, Europe) so I was really surprised to have so many visitors from the US.

Weird thing is, that apart from the extra visitors, it doesn’t really make a huge change in my bouncerate or what so ever, the visitors from Montara have like the same bouncerate as my site’s average, also the average of the time spent on a page is the same.

Some kind of Google Crawl Thing?

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:11:09 +0000

But Kristi, you’re using a WordPress theme, so if you add Askimet, it will take care of almost all of that spam without bothering a single person. I mean, I’ve been using Askimet on this blog since I started it, and on my other blog for at least 4 years, and if I’d never mentioned it no one would know. It’s an absolute must.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:09:32 +0000

I think I care about both, Kristi, though I care more about people who visit. I care about the numbers, though, because no one wants to write for just themselves. I’d love the entire world to read every single word I write, but since that’s not going to happen I want to shoot for as many people as I can get.

By: Kikolani | Poetry, Photography

Kikolani | Poetry, Photography — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:56:40 +0000

I use different analytics tools, and it seems like there are a lot of variation in the numbers. I’ve gotten to the point I care more about how people get to my site (keywords, links, etc) than the numbers.

~ Kristi

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By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:14:15 +0000

Seriously? First time? Wow. That’s like someone saying to me, OMG my Microsoft product has problems!!

LOL!

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:15:15 +0000

Well Taris, as I told Dennis, seems my ISP’s stats also went nuts, so it wasn’t just Google.

By: Taris Janitens

Taris Janitens — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:29:28 +0000

This is the first time I’ve heard of a google product not working correctly!!!!

My best guess would be some type of search engine or something – but again thats just a guess

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:03:11 +0000

Well Dennis, Analytics is still pretty good, but it seems one entity can game the system, just like pretty much anything else I figure. In this case, my domain also showed a major league spike in page views and visitors also, so it wasn’t just Google.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:42:15 +0000

Considering how awesome GA is supposed to be it sure seems like I hear more bad calls then good.

I like my trusty ‘ol statcounter.

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