A while back, I wrote a post on Why Using Google Analytics Is A Bad Idea. Rather than me reiterating what I said in that post, basically if you install Google Analytics code on your site, you are giving Google a back door window into your traffic patterns and they will quickly determine that your (affiliate) site is not the kind of site they want in their index.

Open Source Web Analytics Software

So you have to use an alternative. One alternative I’ve been trying out is Piwik (I’ve no idea what the name means or signifies) – an open source alternative to Google Analytics (open source means that it’s completely free to download and use).

The Piwik Dashboard. Click the image to go to the live Piwik Demo

It’s a PHP script that you install on one of your domains. Installation is pretty straightforward but you may need a bit of technical know-how if installation doesn’t run smoothly.

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I thought I’d written a review of Web Traffic Genius some months back but, since I can’t find such a review on this blog, I guess I never wrote it!

Normally I’d add a new product review here but this time what I’ve done is set up a new domain exclusively for the review, so click here to read my Web Traffic Genius Software Review.

I now use Web Traffic Genius on all my blogs because it makes generating backlinks so easy but like all software, it has its good and bad points. I detail those, as I see them, in the review.

You can ask questions and post comments here if the mood takes you, but I’d prefer if they were left on the review site as I can keep all Web Traffic Genius related matters there where they’re more applicable.