Sorry very n00b question, google analytics

[Mike Dutch]

Oke, i know the question is n99b, but somehow I cant get this done again, I must be overseeing something


I want to display stats per country in GA. I would like to see how many visitors I got per day from the netherlands as example. I can see the visitors but I cant get the graph to display them per day instead of totals, the dates are correct.

Its too simple I know and we do quite some cool stuff with GA reporting, but this ... pfff please help

[Mickey_]

I would create a saved advanced segment for this if it's something you will be checking regularly and comparing to overall traffic.
Click Visitors then click on "All Visits" next to the Advanced Segments label,
create new advanced segment, click on Visitors, drag Country box in as a dimension, type in netherlands, create segment, apply and you're good to go.

[u-Bob]

All I can say is: Don't use them if you care about seo.

(yes, I know.. I'm gonna get flamed by people who believe Google provides all those free services out of the kindness of their hearts and would never even consider using the info they can collect that way in their ranking algo)

[epitome]

Originally Posted by u-Bob

All I can say is: Don't use them if you care about seo.

(yes, I know.. I'm gonna get flamed by people who believe Google provides all those free services out of the kindness of their hearts and would never even consider using the info they can collect that way in their ranking algo)

Google gets the info they want one way or another. It may not be as detailed as with GA but they will get it.

The question is, if you have good traffic, high page views, longer than average time on site and you also have this for the great keywords Google gives you, why wouldn't you want them to know you do great with their search traffic?

[chronig]

Originally Posted by u-Bob

All I can say is: Don't use them if you care about seo.

(yes, I know.. I'm gonna get flamed by people who believe Google provides all those free services out of the kindness of their hearts and would never even consider using the info they can collect that way in their ranking algo)

what would you use instead of google analytics?

[tranza]

Originally Posted by u-Bob

All I can say is: Don't use them if you care about seo.

(yes, I know.. I'm gonna get flamed by people who believe Google provides all those free services out of the kindness of their hearts and would never even consider using the info they can collect that way in their ranking algo)

Lol, you just CAN'T be serious..........

[Frankthefreakintank]

Originally Posted by tranza

Lol, you just CAN'T be serious..........

Ignore the conspiracy nut, probably works for Bing.

[Adraco]

Originally Posted by epitome

Google gets the info they want one way or another. It may not be as detailed as with GA but they will get it.

The question is, if you have good traffic, high page views, longer than average time on site and you also have this for the great keywords Google gives you, why wouldn't you want them to know you do great with their search traffic?

They already know if you're doing good or bad. They follow and track the visitors.

Google knows!

[Mike Dutch]

Originally Posted by Mickey-AWE

I would create a saved advanced segment for this if it's something you will be checking regularly and comparing to overall traffic.
Click Visitors then click on "All Visits" next to the Advanced Segments label,
create new advanced segment, click on Visitors, drag Country box in as a dimension, type in netherlands, create segment, apply and you're good to go.

Thanks Mickey

[Maxi]

Originally Posted by chronig

what would you use instead of google analytics?

Sextracker

[jerryb]

Fuck Google ... don't need them. Do excellent with other SE's. Google is too fucking finicky in linking, keywords, page length, etc etc etc etc etc.

As I said ... fuck Google

[Ron2k1]

Originally Posted by jerryb

Fuck Google ... don't need them. Do excellent with other SE's. Google is too fucking finicky in linking, keywords, page length, etc etc etc etc etc.

As I said ... fuck Google

Well it's pretty hard to just say fuck Google if 90% of the world uses Google

[Rankings]

Google doesn't need the verification tool to pull the majority of info they show you in the analytics admin, the verification just allows them to show you the info they ready know. With that said, use that info to better your site/rankings.

Google is out to provide quality results and if you site is crap, surfers and webmasters know that just as much as google, but at least google gives you enough info to make it better.

[Tasty1]

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[u-Bob]

Originally Posted by tranza

Lol, you just CAN'T be serious..........

SEO:
There's those who use the same techniques over and over again.
And there's those who understand that Google collects data and looks for patterns in that data.

Real SEO's look for patterns in Google's serps and in their own networks. SEO is about having control over as many factors Google might use to judge your site as possible.

One of the most primitive examples of controlling one of those factors is link building. There's a huge difference between 1000s of oneway links from unrelated sites and 100 recip links from related sites and 20000 oneway links from related sites....

Most SEO's stop at link building and some on-site optimization. However, those are only the tip of the iceberg. Why would Google bother collecting tons of information if they didn't use it or were planning on using it in the future?

fact is, Google uses A LOT of information. Just mention a url in an email to a gmail account and you can be sure Google will use that. Use their DNS service and you can be sure they use that info. etc etc.

[u-Bob]

Originally Posted by chronig

what would you use instead of google analytics?

mostly my own, built round mod_perl...