How To Eliminate Your Own Visits In Google Analytics Using Your Ip Address

So you have already installed Google Analytics onto your site and been looking through all the exciting data, which includes lots of visitors to your site. But wait, how many of those hits are you or your fellow colleagues? If half your weekly visits are just you, then your analytics data is going to become null and void.
Do you check your website often?
Do you go to your site to reference certain information regularly?
Have you set your site as your homepage?
If you have answered yes to one or more of those questions then you need to know that Google Analytics is logging all of those hits, which means youre just cheating yourself out of relevant and useful data. Including all your own visits is useless, you really want to see how many potential customers are looking at your site and what they are doing on it.
To stop Google from logging all YOUR activity on YOUR site you need to set up Filters in Google Analytics using your IP address, to do so, follow these simple steps
How to Set Up Filters in Google Analytics:
Go to Google Analytics, log in and click on your site.
Click Analytics Settings in the top left corner of the page.
Click Filter Manager at the bottom right, underneath the Website Profiles box.
You will arrive at the Filter Manager page which lists all your filters (if you have any)
Before we go any further, you need to find out what your IP address is, the easiest way to do this is by going to this site - http://www.ipchicken.com/
Make a note of your IP address and any other IP addresses of your colleagues computers around you. If you are on the same internet network, your IP address will probably be the same.
Next, click on Add Filter which is in the top right of the Existing Filters box.
You will be presented with a simple form to fill out, enter the following information
1.Filter Name This is up to you, something like Exclude my PC
2.Filter Type
Make sure that Predefined Filter is highlighted
3.From the dropdown boxes you want to select
Exclude
Traffic from the IP addresses
That are equal to
4.Then enter your IP address in the box provided
5.Select all the sites you want to add to the filter from the Available Website Profiles box and click Add.
6.Click on Save Changes and your filter is complete.

About the Author:
Silicon Beach Training runs regular Google Analytics Training and Advanced Google Analytics Training courses.

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