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  • HELMY
    Confirmed User
    • Aug 2002
    • 494

    #1

    How amazing is it that Google Analytics is free?

    Saw a related thread, and had to ask because it's been on my mind for a while now...
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  • miss_jody
    Confirmed User
    • Apr 2007
    • 807

    #2
    agreed.... GREAT tool!!

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    • CamTraffic
      Confirmed User
      • Feb 2008
      • 6537

      #3
      shush !! they are gonna read your post and start charging for it
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      • MrCodey

        #4
        its free unless you have a big site, then they ask you to buy advertising, or at least they used too, i believe there is some enhanced version as well that costs money

        Also not exactly free, you are letting them see your entire business strategy, imagine the power of having access to the top million sites on the net.. lol
        There would be no doubt in any move you make.. its kinda scary
        Last edited by Guest; 04-24-2009, 02:37 PM. Reason: addendum

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        • RyuLion
          • Mar 2003
          • 32364

          #5
          very nice!

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          • d-null
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            • Apr 2007
            • 13724

            #6
            I would NEVER use it on any site of mine that I actually cared about.

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            • fuzebox
              making it rain
              • Oct 2003
              • 22353

              #7
              Originally posted by MrCodey
              Also not exactly free, you are letting them see your entire business strategy, imagine the power of having access to the top million sites on the net.. lol
              There would be no doubt in any move you make.. its kinda scary
              This is how I feel as well. Google has never been a search engine company, they've always been a data mining company. Data and demographics are their primary business, so you are actually trading your private information in exchange for stats software

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              • rowan
                Too lazy to set a custom title
                • Mar 2002
                • 17393

                #8
                "Don't be evil"

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                • $5 submissions
                  I help you SUCCEED
                  • Nov 2003
                  • 32189

                  #9
                  It's amazing... specially now that Mr.Codey hooked me up with a way to export thousands of keywords without going through the default page by page process.

                  Free or not, Analytics is awesome.

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                  • Azoy?
                    Confirmed User
                    • Aug 2005
                    • 2178

                    #10
                    Originally posted by HELMY
                    Saw a related thread, and had to ask because it's been on my mind for a while now...
                    Google Analytics is not free. It doesn't cost you anything to use but in return you are sending information to Google about your site and how users including location, keywords, and how those users found your site as well as if they used another search engine besides Google.
                    They use all this information to become a better search engine.
                    So it may not cost you anything directly but you are paying Google back with information about your site so it's not really free. Call it exchange of information ;)

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                    • HELMY
                      Confirmed User
                      • Aug 2002
                      • 494

                      #11
                      Fair deal.
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                      • WiredGuy
                        Pounding Googlebot
                        • Aug 2002
                        • 34512

                        #12
                        Its wonderful with the exception that Google is aggregating user data like no tomorrow. I personally don't want Google knowing too much about my sites, especially when my sites are optimized to extract as much traffic from Google as possible ;)
                        WG
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                        • qxm
                          Confirmed User
                          • Jul 2006
                          • 5970

                          #13
                          Originally posted by WiredGuy
                          Its wonderful with the exception that Google is aggregating user data like no tomorrow. I personally don't want Google knowing too much about my sites, especially when my sites are optimized to extract as much traffic from Google as possible ;)
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                          • Agent 488
                            Registered User
                            • Feb 2006
                            • 22511

                            #14
                            the information they are getting off their users is near invaulable.

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                            • SBJ
                              So Fucking Fabulous
                              • Apr 2003
                              • 11377

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Azoy?
                              Google Analytics is not free. It doesn't cost you anything to use but in return you are sending information to Google about your site and how users including location, keywords, and how those users found your site as well as if they used another search engine besides Google.
                              They use all this information to become a better search engine.
                              So it may not cost you anything directly but you are paying Google back with information about your site so it's not really free. Call it exchange of information ;)

                              I'm happy to give them information about my sites for the use of this amazing tool for free

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                              • d-null
                                . . .
                                • Apr 2007
                                • 13724

                                #16
                                Originally posted by Silent Bob Jedi
                                I'm happy to give them information about my sites for the use of this amazing tool for free


                                that is funny but scary at the same time

                                Fuck Google and their Google Analytics

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                                • Sukiho
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Feb 2009
                                  • 111

                                  #17
                                  Im sure that they are going to use the information to rank sites, now they just use keywords and links (as far as I know) but by encouraging people to put analytics on their sites they can tell if people actually hang round on a site and they will eventually use that info to rank sites in searches, at least thats what I would do

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                                  • whatif_3
                                    Registered User
                                    • Jul 2004
                                    • 459

                                    #18
                                    would be more amazing if i can get exact referring url grrrrr

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                                    • adonthenet
                                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                                      • Feb 2005
                                      • 16753

                                      #19
                                      Originally posted by MrCodey
                                      its free unless you have a big site, then they ask you to buy advertising, or at least they used too, i believe there is some enhanced version as well that costs money

                                      Also not exactly free, you are letting them see your entire business strategy, imagine the power of having access to the top million sites on the net.. lol
                                      There would be no doubt in any move you make.. its kinda scary
                                      you are right, but its google, they have the full power anyway so whatever

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                                      • uno
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                                        • Dec 2002
                                        • 18450

                                        #20
                                        Wasn't that Urchin before they bought it?
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                                        • Shoplifter
                                          Richest man in Babylon
                                          • Jan 2002
                                          • 5850

                                          #21
                                          Originally posted by d-null
                                          I would NEVER use it on any site of mine that I actually cared about.
                                          I'm not sure about this as well. It seems you are giving the whole game away to Google.
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                                          • mynameisjim
                                            Confirmed User
                                            • Aug 2007
                                            • 2985

                                            #22
                                            Never put it on your checkout page if you run adwords.

                                            It's a good program for some sites. A terrible idea for others.
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                                            • riddler
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Oct 2004
                                              • 3726

                                              #23
                                              Originally posted by uno
                                              Wasn't that Urchin before they bought it?
                                              yeah its urchin, you can still buy licenses of urchin if you dont trust google data mining your sites traffic in exchange for the free statistics.

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                                              • fris
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                                                • Aug 2002
                                                • 55729

                                                #24
                                                urchin was a major buy for them.

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