Comments on: Is Most Of Your Blog Traffic Coming from You?

By: Warner

Warner — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:47:42 +0000

I have heard of this before, and there are several ways of hiding your own IP addresses.

By: Blue

Blue — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:08:53 +0000

Interesting, I guess this is something most poeple don’t think about when tracking blog traffic.

By: Steve Dix

Steve Dix — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:06:58 +0000

IP addresses aren’t going to be definitive, depending on your ISP. Most ISPs have a block of addresses that are randomly allocated, and reassigned every so often. Unless you’ve specifically paid for a static IP address, you may be operating from a dynamically reallocated address. Not disconnecting your computer won’t help, as the addresses are given a time-to-live, after which they are reallocated.

I exclude myself from my blog/web stats by having the admin section of the website under a different subdomain. ie. main site : http://www.stevedix.de, admin section http://admin.stevedix.de (and no, that’s not the real subdomain) That way the log files for the main site and the admin are separate. Lots of ISPs allow you unlimited subdomains, which is a very effective method of sectioning your stats.

By: Steve Roye

Steve Roye — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:21:37 +0000

The only real way to filter yourself out is if you know what IP’s you are using — those can then be entered into your analytics account.

The Prof

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:39:44 +0000

Hi Steve

Thanks for the info. I’m moving around quite a lot for work so can be accessing my site from 5 different places a week – hotels, cafes etc.

Is there a way to filter myself out of analytics without having to add all these IPs each time I get to a new network?

Julian