How to Exclude WordPress Logged in User Page Views from Google Analytics?
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Active bloggers keep publishing several blog posts a month. During the process of drafting, editing, publishing, previewing and even modifying it later, a number of page views are recorded by Google Analytics as if an actual blog visitor is browsing your site. For a small time blog with only a few hundred visits per month, this would mean that what you perceived as real blog visits are not exactly so.
Excluding the logged in user or admin page views from your Google Analytics (or other tracking code) would not only project more accurate blog visitor analytics but also help hiding the admin location from Google. For smaller niche blogs that target a particular geographic location, this may be an important aspect. In this short post, let me explain how to exclude your Google analytics tracking code for logged in WordPress users.
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Google Sniper
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Google Sniper Review
So you want to make $5,000 per month online out of your web content. Let us list your options.
- Build an authority blog or website that is updated regularly and monetized via Google AdSense, private ad sales and affiliate links – Traffic requirement will be in the range of one or two hundred thousand uniques per month if not more
- Build several niche blogs with lesser authority but converting content and monetized via affiliate marketing
- Don’t write any content yourself but take the autoblogging route – Well not the cleanest approach
- …or just build a few Google Sniper sites, each of which can be built under couple of hours!
Internet Marketing in India – Challenges
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I mentioned in a recent post about top affiliate programs in India that Internet marketing in India is yet to pick momentum. In fact, India along with the other BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries has huge potential to make it big in the Internet volume business but it is still untapped or underutilized due to multiple reasons. In this post, let me try to analyze the reasons behind the lower penetration of online marketing in the Indian context.
India is a huge country in terms of population and our cities are really scoring low on infrastructure resulting in huge traffic jams, crowded malls and long queues. Ideally such a scenario should push people to do more things online but at the moment that’s not the case. The situation, hence, is not conducive for Internet based marketing as well.
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