By default, Google Analytics will record all visits, including your own. This could skew the reported data. You can use AdBlock Plus to block tracking, but this will block all Analytics tracking, not just yours on your site (which is actually your goal). Excluding visit by IP is easy, but this will not work if your ISP utilizes dynamic IPs.
To exclude your visits to your own Blogger blog from being counted by Google Analytics, use these steps:
1.) Install Google Analytics code as a widget.
2.) In the second <script> block, add the following before the closing tag: pageTracker._setVar("your_own_filter_name"); Note the name of your own filter, you'll use that later. Also, this will only work for the ga.js (improved) version.
3.) Open your blog using all browsers in all computers where you usually work. If the page is already loaded, make sure to reload it.
4.) Remove the line that you've added in step 2. (Note that this an important step, and must be done immediately upon completion of steps 1 to 3. If you will keep the code that you added in step 2, all those who will visit your blog during the time the code is there will be excluded from the Google Analytics reports.)
5.) Log in to your GA account and create a filter with the following settings:
Filter Type: Custom filter > Exclude
Filter Field: User Defined
Filter Pattern: your_own_filter_name
Case Sensitive: No
It might take some time before you notice that indeed your visits are being excluded from GA.
See also how to use Google Analytics with Wordpress. Take a look at this thread regarding using using cookies to exclude internal traffic which is used for this article. For more advanced Google Analytics, you can have user defined segmentation.
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To exclude your visits to your own Blogger blog from being counted by Google Analytics, use these steps:
1.) Install Google Analytics code as a widget.
2.) In the second <script> block, add the following before the closing tag: pageTracker._setVar("your_own_filter_name"); Note the name of your own filter, you'll use that later. Also, this will only work for the ga.js (improved) version.
3.) Open your blog using all browsers in all computers where you usually work. If the page is already loaded, make sure to reload it.
4.) Remove the line that you've added in step 2. (Note that this an important step, and must be done immediately upon completion of steps 1 to 3. If you will keep the code that you added in step 2, all those who will visit your blog during the time the code is there will be excluded from the Google Analytics reports.)
5.) Log in to your GA account and create a filter with the following settings:
Filter Type: Custom filter > Exclude
Filter Field: User Defined
Filter Pattern: your_own_filter_name
Case Sensitive: No
It might take some time before you notice that indeed your visits are being excluded from GA.
See also how to use Google Analytics with Wordpress. Take a look at this thread regarding using using cookies to exclude internal traffic which is used for this article. For more advanced Google Analytics, you can have user defined segmentation.
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Labels: adblock plus, google analytics
This method does not work for me. I follow all the steps but does not exclude GA my visits. You know when expires this cookie? It is important to know. Session? Never? x days?
Thanks in advance.
SF
Hi SF,
Some things you may want to look into:
1. Did you wait for an ample amount of time before you check if your visits are excluded? I would suggest following the steps, doing a lot of visits to your site (perhaps by an automated bot), and checking your stats. If it did jump, then your visits are not being excluded.
2. Check your cache. Your browser may be caching the page, which is why you are still being included in the count.
3. Check your spelling. Really. I made this error once.
On the other hand, if you can't really make these steps work, do the AdBlock Plus way. (Personally, I'm doing that right now, since I use a lot of computers for my online tasks -- I don't have an Internet connection at home.)
I hope this helps.