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Post by AnnieD on Jun 8, 2010 17:11:49 GMT 1
Cos I want to exclude our traffic from google analytics, I checked our IP address the other day & did the necessary (preens)
However, when I had a looksee today we now have a different IP address!!
Why dat?
Does it change all the time? I thought that it stayed the same !!!
What is happening guys??
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Post by Admin on Jun 8, 2010 17:18:26 GMT 1
It changes, eg. every time you switch your modem off your IP will change when you next switch it on again.
If your IP begins with eg.... 105 (as in 105.66.14.21) then you'll usually retain the same first numbers (b4 the first dot) at least.
You could 'wild card' the IP addresses by using * instead of numbers after the first set of 2 numbers..... that should take out your own address or those that live closeish to you.........
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Post by AnnieD on Jun 8, 2010 20:14:32 GMT 1
Wow! So how come you know that sort of stuff???
And does wildcarding work on google analytics?
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Post by AnnieD on Jun 8, 2010 20:15:25 GMT 1
PLUS ............. Why does google analytics let you nominate your IP address, to exclude it from stats, if it changes all the time  |
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Post by BartyB on Jun 8, 2010 23:05:28 GMT 1
PLUS ............. Why does google analytics let you nominate your IP address, to exclude it from stats, if it changes all the time Because if you're on a business BB package there's a pretty good chance that you'll have a static IP address. For most businesses it doesn't really matter that much as the hits from your own IP address shouldn't be enough to skew the data. And no, you can't wild card IPs in analitics |
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Post by BartyB on Jun 8, 2010 23:29:28 GMT 1
You could 'wild card' the IP addresses by using * instead of numbers after the first set of 2 numbers..... that should take out your own address or those that live closeish to you......... I've just checked and you can't "wild card" GA IP ignore.......... more importantly why on earth should you believe IP addresses ahve a geographical significance? Sure you can to an extent pinpoint an IP but that's from a database, not from a logical geographical allocation. |
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Post by bottomburp on Jun 9, 2010 0:04:08 GMT 1
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