Google looking at Perenety
So we’ve been talking to a few people about Perenety and what we’re building - carefully avoiding the GYM (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft), for reasons that will become obvious soon.
So reports like this one certainly come as a surprise:
97 visits from the Google network for the week - close to 200 since early February. The number was zero prior to Feb 4th. What’s even more interesting is the lack of drill-down information for these visits, i.e. I can’t tell what they’ve been looking at using my Google Analytics reports.
Anyway, I have an idea:
Distance: 6.3 mi (about 8 mins)
You need a better web analytics tool.
Comment by Frank Faubert — February 25, 2006 @ 7:58 am
I agree with Frank there. I use StatCounter.com, and keep Google Analytics out of places I don’t want Google knowing about. Places like the download pages of e-products I sell online. Maybe its just a little paranoia, but reading your story, sort of makes me feel vindicated.
Comment by Clinton Goveas — February 27, 2006 @ 12:35 pm
And whilst you are at it, setup your FeedBurner feed to access one of the default style sheets.
StatsCounter.com and Sitemeter.com do a good, complementary, job.
Comment by Jeff Clavier — February 27, 2006 @ 1:30 pm
It’s possible that it’s not Google. If someone visiting your site is using the Google Web Accelerator you will see the ip as Google, even though it is coming from somewhere else.
Comment by J.D. Amer — February 27, 2006 @ 2:43 pm
We had the exact same porblem and google web accelerator was the reason.
With google on every part of our browser it’s start to mix everything !
Comment by labbe — February 27, 2006 @ 3:20 pm
I had the same idea so I compared this to my stats for Coffee, Sun and Technology (using Google Analytics - same reporting tool on both sites). There I am seeing very few hits for “google” as a network - and very far down the list (see comparison here: http://www.coffeesuntechnology.com/g-p.php).
Comment by Xavier Casanova — February 27, 2006 @ 4:19 pm
I’m curious what your raw files might reveal about what Google has been up to.
Comment by Bill Trippe — February 27, 2006 @ 6:06 pm
Actually from Google analytics you can tell what they were looking at:
Click on the red icon beside “Google” with two up arrows,
then click on Cross Segment Performance,
then click on Content,
this will then show you which URLs within your site they accessed.
Please share
– amr
Comment by Amr Awadallah — February 27, 2006 @ 6:46 pm
I read about an experiment somebody did a little bit ago where they visited a page that wasn’t linked from anywhere and that they didnt’ tell anybody about from their own browser using the google toolbar. Sure enough, the toolbar submitted the URL of this hidden page to google as part of the usual pagerank-fetching process, and the page got visited by googlebot and got put into google’s search results within a matter of days.
I’ve long suspected that AdSense ads not only fetch content for purposes of figuring out which ads to put on the page, but also to index the pages for google’s search results. I suspect the same thing happens with google analytics.
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