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commonpeople

Google Analytics on Livejournal

May 21, 2010 12:14

I've been using Google Analytics with my Livejournal for a month now. It was my dream for years to be able to collect data on who visits my journal: what do they type into Google to find me? Which posts are most popular? Where are my readers from? Google Analytics tells you everything, even who on LJ is reading you, and who isn't. In that ( Read more... )

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Comments 6

jellyfish93 May 21 2010, 18:07:08 UTC

all right, i'll admit it: the elongatedcunts was me.
;)

commonpeople May 22 2010, 08:23:14 UTC

:-)

tonight_we_fly May 22 2010, 08:47:18 UTC

Did it work first time for you? I've just tried to set this up, but at the end of the process it just tells me that an error has occurred (but not what the error is).

commonpeople May 23 2010, 19:16:49 UTC

It didn't at first, though Google Analytics kept showing that it was "gathering" info. Then someone from LJ posted in their news site that the problem had been fixed. Is it now working for you?

amypops May 23 2010, 00:02:48 UTC

And I thought I typed some screwed up shit into google!

commonpeople May 23 2010, 19:17:27 UTC

It's also scary that those results lead here. Makes me wonder what the hell I wrote to gather them!