How to eliminate own visit in the traffic report?

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   TopUniverseposted 14 years ago

   When I see traffic status for any hub through my account, it show results for outside traffic and own visits.
   
   Is there a way to eliminate own visits?

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      ankigarg87posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      There is no such way as we can login from different computers and our visits also account a visit in google so we cannot eliminate our own visit in the traffic report

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         Website Examinerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Doesn't make sense to me...

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   Cagsilposted 14 years ago

   No.
   
   I guess you could try to use Google Analytics, but I am not that familiar with it.

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      eslevy17posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I've been using analytics and it tracks your own activity too. There may be a way to change it, but I know it's following me around because the entrance pathways it shows are the exact keywords I typed in (ones which had nothing to do with the hubs themselves, just obscure things I looked for and I eventually visited a hub of mine a while later in the same window I guess).

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      Website Examinerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Google Analytics can be configured to exclude one's own IP address.

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   sunforgedposted 14 years ago

   There is a rough answer, I can give you.
   
   Sorry, ahead of time.
   
   If your own visits are noticeable enough to cause you to want to create this thread then that is the least of your worries.
   
   You should be following your stats in the 100's - the dozen or so visits you are making you should be inconsequential.
   
   
   It cant be done via HP
   
   
   In a couple of months if you keep writing, you will see how unimportant your own views and how they may skew your results are.

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   mega1posted 14 years ago

   people always say your own visits to your hubs count in the traffic figures - but I have checked and whenever I go to my hubs to edit and enter through my account page, they do not show up on the views counts, so I don't see the problem.  Maybe if you enter your own hubs from another computer it matters, but if you're signed into HP as yourself your visits to your hubs shouldn't count, I really don't see mine counting.

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      Website Examinerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Mine are always counted, both during editing and subsequently.

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      eslevy17posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      There's a delay anyway. Even if I message my friends to take a look at it (and we discuss it so I know it happened) the view won't be counted for a while. It seems like it only updates every hour or so anyway.

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   Miekaposted 14 years ago

   Hey,
   I've had a look around my google analytics account, but I'm a total idiot when it comes to that, so how exactly do I exclude my own IP address?
   
   Thanks guys

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   lrohnerposted 14 years ago

   To exclude your IP from Analytics, first go to http://whatismyip.com to determine your current address.
   
   Then log into Analytics. From your main Analytics page, click Filter Manager down in the lower right corner. In the table that appears, click Add Filter on the right of the dark gray bar.
   
   Give your filter a name, like "Exclude my IP" and click Predefined Filter. Set the dropdowns to "Exclude" "Traffic from the IP Addressed" and "That are Equal to." Then plug in your IP address.
   
   In the box below that, it should list Hubpages.com and any other sites you have Analytics tracking. Click on Hubpages.com and then click Add to move it to the right box. Then click Save Changes in the lower left.
   
   Edited to add: Some people have a static IP address, that is, the IP address rarely (if ever) changes, and usually only if you have modem problems. Some people have a dynamic IP address, meaning your IP address changes every time you start up your computer. If you have a dynamic IP addresss, you will have to do this each time.

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      Miekaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Wow thanks Irohner, I'm off to implement this now

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   Pcunixposted 14 years ago

   But - as SunForged pointed out - if you have so little traffic that your own visits matter, the traffic reports and Analytics really don't have enough raw data to give you much that is helpful anyway.
   
   Even with traffic, you also need time.
   
   I get decent traffic at my main site (250,000+ per month) and turned on Analytics on the very first day it became available (December 2005) and I STILL often feel like I need more data to make intelligent judgments.
   
   That is especially true for Adsense, which wasn't added to Analytics until December 2008 and of course very soon after we went into an economic recession - I wish I had Analytics Adsense data from before 2008!
   
   For HP, with less than 15,000 pv's and less than 4 months so far, I don't even bother to look yet.  It is turned on, but there is too little data to tell me much of anything.

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      earnestshubposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Very good work PC, you are right of course. I still don't have good stats for more than a hand full of my hubs. Not enough data to hang my hat on here yet.

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