Comment posted Why Using Google Analytics Is A Bad Idea by Chris Cashton.

You’re dead on with this Gary. The very nature of Google is the reason it becomes harder for a successful affiliate to rank well over time. As a marketer’s business grows they become more organized and tech savvy. The result is more consistant domain registrant data, a larger number of sites published with the same footprint, all the way up to the leasing of a dedicated server with private name servers and IP’s that are used exclusively for this one person’s sites.

Even worse is the fact that while you may be smart enough to run your own license of a different analytics solution, a large number of other sites don’t. So when your website or backlinking software, etc. reach out to the community, Google is still tracking your connections, logging the unique identifiers, and connecting the dots across numerous sites.

Google provides us with some valuable tools and information for our projects. However, for the reasons you illustrated and more, those of us engaged in marketing activities should take precautionary measures such as logging out of our Google accounts and clearing cookies when we’re done using their tools – for starters. I’m at the point where I do almost everything behind a quality paid proxy service. And when I’m running submission software I do it while connected to the WiFi at one of several local Starbucks. I feel more protected and it gives me an excuse to leave the house and get a good coffee buzz going.

Happy New Year!

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