Google Analytics data for my weebly domain site are distorted by spammy links to my site from other, unrelated sites. Not sure whether to call it a spambot or not.
I'm told there's a way to correct for this in Analytics data. How?
I've checked around for answers to this .. most of them seem for those far dweebier than my relatively clueless self. Weebly CS referred me elsewhere for assistance.
Thanks.
Eric
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I run a website that contains links to other partner sites. According to my partners, no traffic comes through the links on my site. As a result, I created an artificial affiliate website myself and actually it was not possible to capture the links that go to the artificial website on my website. I already searched the source code and could not find any meta information like "no-referrer". Does anyone have any idea what else it could be?
Thanks in advance for your ideas!
I have a Telegram channel and I share links on YouTube, Facebook, blogs and other sites. So my question is how to know from what source the user joined?
Please help me to solve it. Thanks.
For that you'll need to use URL shortening services like cutt.ly, that provides analytics on visiting generated URLs. So you can generate and share them instead of direct URLs.
Also, you can add/implement similar functionality to your blog site and track UTM-labels together with others (that you probably use) in service like Google Analytics.
There is no way because when you share anywhere your channel path stays fixed, telegram doesn't support that.
I have curious about when I use a free version of Google Spreadsheet. Could Google be looking into our sheet file? Could they take some data to analyze something from our data like a company commercial, search engine something like that?
Could you guys please give me an answer for that thing, please.
Technically speaking if your data is private and you have not shared it with anyone then you should be the only one who has access to it. Private user data does not show up in Google searches.
This does not say that google couldn't open your file and see whats in it. I really doubt it as how would they know your data from the data owned by millions of other people and the cat pictures. Analysis of data only works if the data it self has meeting to the person doing the analysis your data likely only means something to you.
Google may do some analytics as to how often some types of files are accessed and how much data is in them. Personally i doubt that google will be looking in the actually spreadsheet. However I dont work from google and i dont think anyone here on stack can answer this question for you 100%.
You may want to consider reading though Google
Privacy & Terms and Google Privacy Policy. These files include information about what we can expect from Google in the way of protecting our data and what they use it for if at all.
If I have a webpage (www.example.com/very_long_random_name.htm) on a site that's already been indexed by google, will it ever be found if it has no incoming links?
Or can google find such unlinked pages by some other method?
No, it will not be indexed. At least in theory, that is. The crucial thing is that there are no incoming links, the fact that the name is long and random does not matter.
However, it is hard to be sure that it really won't be indexed, since incoming links can come from everywhere and without your knowledge. For example some email that contains a link might get indexed (especially if one particicpant in the conversation uses a questionnable mail provider), or someone might post a link on some forum, etc.
Recently search engines have been able to page dynamic content on social networking sites. I would like to understand how this is done. Are there static pages created by a site like Facebook that update semi frequently. Does Google attempt to store every possible user name?
As I understand it, a page like www.facebook.com/username, is not an actual file stored on disk but is shorthand for a query like: select username from users and display the information on the page. How does Google know about every user, this gets even more complicated when things like tweets are involved.
EDIT: I guess I didn't really ask what I wanted to know about. Do I need to be as big as twitter or facebook in order for google to make special ways to crawl my site? Will google automatically find my users profiles if I allow anyone to view them? If not what do I have to do to make that work?
In the case of tweets in particular, Google isn't 'crawling' for them in the traditional sense; they've integrated with Twitter to provide the search results in real-time.
In the more general case of your question, dynamic content is not new to Facebook or Twitter, though it may seem to be. Google crawls a URL; the URL provides HTML data; Google indexes it. Whether it's a dynamic query that's rendering the page, or whether it's a cache of static HTML, makes little difference to the indexing process in theory. In practice, there's a lot more to it (see Michael B's comment below.)
And see Vartec's succinct post on how Google might find all those public Facebook profiles without actually logging in and poking around FB.
OK, that was vastly oversimplified, but let's see what else people have to say..
As far as I know Google isn't able to read and store the actual contents of profiles, because the Google bot doesn't have a Facebook account, and it would be a huge privacy breach.
The bot works by hitting facebook.com and then following every link it can find. Whatever content it sees on the page it hits, it stores. So even if it follows a dynamic url like www.facebook.com/username, it will just remember whatever it saw when it went there. Hopefully in that particular case, it isn't all the private data of said user.
Additionally, facebook can and does provide special instructions that search bots can follow, so that google results don't include a bunch of login pages.
profiles can be linked from outside;
site may provide sitemap