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Google new features. Google Webmaster Tools Update

October 18th, 2006 admin

I love Google updates. Every time they introduce a new feature is something valuable that brings something new to the table. This time the update is on Google Webmaster Tools (Google Sitemaps service).

The new feature is called: “Crawl Rate”. It gives information in three specific areas:

· The number of pages in your site crawled per day for the last three months.

· Number of kilobytes downloaded per day

· Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)

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This is great information especially for those increasing the amount of content in their site, now you have a better idea of how many pages you are actually bringing to the internet as added value.

Finally you can also set different speeds for your crawling. Isn’t it amazing? Visit Google Webmaster Tools today and check it out by yourself. I think that internet marketing is more exciting than ever.

Alex. A. Centeno

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Need the IP address of your visitors in Google Analytics Reports? Is it possible?

October 1st, 2006 admin

Google has blocked the ability to gather IP information from your Google Analytics reports. This is based on the fact that by using Google Analytics you shouldn’t be able to identify specific users and their behaviors. There is an easy way to still gather the IP’s if you don’t mind using also a little bit of php (Apache server is the best way to go). Use the following code in your body tag (I would use it only in the home-page.

Tag: IP

This is the other way (not functional anymore) that you used to be able to accomplish the gathering of IP’s in GA if you want to apply this knowledge to other filters in Google Analytics.

Steps:

  1. In GA, go to the “Edit” menu for the profile that you are trying to collect IP addresses from. (This is located next to the “view reports” link for every profile.
  2. Scroll down to the third box “Filters for Profile”, and click on the link: “add filter” located at the right top section of this box.
  3. The settings will be the following:
    1. :: Add new Filter for Profile
    2. Filter Name: “IP Address”
    3. Filter Type: (Dropdown menu) Select “ Custom Filter”
    4. Then from the radio boxes select: “advanced”
    5. In the first dropdown box: Field A: select the following:

i. Visitor IP Address

    1. In the text box next to it type the following:

i. (.*)

    1. In the next dropdown and text box don’t include anything.
    2. In the last dropdown box: Output to: select the following:

i. User defined

    1. In the text box next to it type the following:

i. $A1

    1. Field A required = yes
    2. Field B required = no
    3. Override Output Field = yes
    4. Case Sensitive = no
    5. FINISH

Once you have setup the filter like this you will be able to see the IP addresses of your visitors by selecting the user defined menu in the visitor performance menu or by cross segmenting by user defined variable. Remember that you don’t want to place this filter if you are collecting any other custom segments in your site since you will overwrite those. If your tracking code is the same in every page of your site and you had no previous filters then you have nothing to worry.

That is it.

If you need more valuable information you can search the user-forum for Google Analytics at: http://groups.google.com/group/analytics-help

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