Hi I have implemented google analytics on to my website. However it only shows the location of visitors on the country, state and city level. How do I get it to show the visitors location drilling down to suburb level?
Is it a special code I need on my website or some settings I need to do on my account or something I have to pay for ?
Thanks so much for the help!
Google Analytics' accuracy will very often be the best you can get.
There is HTML5 Geolocation (more detailed introduction here) which can be more accurate, down to several feet if the user's machine has a GPS device. However, this kind of geolocation requires the user's explicit permission.
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Recently I have developed an app on php, which will be running in my workplace local network. The traffic on the Sever(hosted externally) is very large. But the problem is that, since it has to run within local network, the same public IP will be allocated to every user within the network.
Map of the network
Server (Public IP eg. 11.11.11.11) -> Local network users (eg 198.162.1.1).
My application server is has been hosted externally.
Will I be able to run advertisements(adsense) and get paid through it. As the users will always have same public IP.
Note: I am much more concerned about adsense(by google).
I would also like to know the best way to earn through a social networking site other then addsense.
I request you to answer descriptively.Feel free to edit this question for better understanding.Thanks for reading.
Yes, because in your case even google.com will be browsed from local network and so it will also have traffic. Now just don't ask your friends to click on adds in your website.
First, here’s a very brief outline of exactly how AdSense works:
You sign up for AdSense with Google, and, if you are accepted, Google will start placing ads on your web pages automatically.
If someone on your site sees an ad and clicks on it they leave your site.
Google charges the advertiser for the click and shares this money with you. This type of advertising is called Pay Per Click advertising, usually abbreviated to PPC.
The Ads you get on your web pages are usually relevant to your visitor.
With a planned $90 million settlement, Google could soon dispense with a class-action lawsuit involving so-called click fraud.
But while that may be good for Google, it doesn't mean the problem of bogus clicks on online ads--which advertisers have to pay for--is going to disappear anytime soon. A lack of clear standards for determining what is a fraudulent click, or some sort of third-party clearinghouse to monitor the situation, means some advertisers believe they can't do much more than head to the courts when they think there's a problem.
Certainly, Google and Yahoo, which run the two largest pay-per-click advertising networks, say they're addressing the problem. But some click auditing companies still claim that between 20 percent and 35 percent of clicks on Net advertisements are fraudulent.
Unfortunately, there's no easy answer. Some experts say the solution is to have an independent auditor that would use data from the search engines and advertisers to determine in a neutral environment whether clicks are fraudulent.
I repeat, in your case users will even browse google.com or other site, which enables them to know the network type that you have. But make don't click on your own adds which violates their TOS. All the best.
i think it is not possible to run in local network because i should hit the Google adsense server so that it increases your earnings. you can let your Google adsense Script run it doesn't consume more bandwidth.
I'm going to say no.
For a better, more descriptive answer, ask Adsense directly
Possible related questions
Intranet Ads? Same IP, multiple hits
How google adsense detects that the clicks are made from same computer ? Do they check ip addresses ?
Is it legal to add google adsense acount to Local LAN website?
Edit for 1st comment
would you mind giving some conclusion explaining briefly. Can you also give some good alternative to google adsense for a social networking site. I appreciate for help
As all clickouts will be on the same IP "As the users will always have same public IP.", Google will think this is "clickfraud", and you're falsifying authentic clickouts - which you're not, but this is what it will seem like, on Google's end.
Google will first flag your account, and then (most likely, after investigating) close your Adsense account.
Alternatives to Adsense would be;
Infolinks
Kontera
Amazon Associates
BuySellAds
Text Link Ads
Clicksor
Apparently a good choice
Adversal
I've not used any of these personally, and I fetched this list from stream-seo.com
For an online ordering system, we figured that we would take the entered address and city, calculate the distance between it and each entry in a database of addresses using the Google Maps API.
However the client was told by his previous designer that he needs to use geotargeting for more accuracy. As far as I know, geotargetting is only accurate in getting the user's country, but definitely not precise location.
Is there a problem with the address+city method? And is there any truth to the geotargetting method?
Geo-targeting will provide you with the precise location (coordinates) of the user, if they choose to share it.
You can use the coordinates with Google Maps API to then calculate the distance in the same manner you planned with address of the user or the restaurant. (Google converts any address to a coordinates in it's calculations.)
There is no problem with your address+city method, but it may be easier for users to just share their current location... and not have to enter a current address+city.
Address+city would need to be a fallback if the user is not willing to 'share their current location' via geo-targeting.
I have been looking through the documentation for the API and not sure if it is possible to list multiple select stores near the submitted address.
Ultimately something like the following website: http://www.evolutionofsmooth.com/locator/
It seems like they have each location stored in a db but I can't see it that likely since it would be pretty huge to do something like that.
Any ideas?
They probably did store all the shops in a database. They saved the latitude and longitude of each shop. Then they load, via AJAX, all the shops into the google map. Google maps has a tutorial for creating a storelocator.
Google maps api v3 has a function called ClientLocation this can, on base of the IP-address, return the current position of the user viewing the google map. This way the closest shops can be highlighted or put on top of the list.
Hopes this will help!
my problem is i want to show my registered site user on to google map but dont know how to locate the user, means i dont know the latitude and longitude of every user . I am a newbie in google map so plz help
Thanks a ton
What location data do you have for your users? Cities, states, countries?
You might want to have a look at Google's Geocoding APIs.
there are two possible ways of doing this.
Ask the user to search a google map and place themselves on it. Look here for an idea on how to do this http://www.designing4u.de/2008/08/google-maps-jquery-and-xml-saving-markers-with-user-input/
Use an IP to Location database to find out the location based on their IP. Look here for how to do this http://www.ip2nation.com/ip2nation
There is no way to reliably locate a user using their IP address. However if you are developing for a mobile device it may be possible to acquire their GPS coordinates. Or you could require them to enter an address and place a point on the map from that address with geocoding.
If you are collecting the address of each registered user, you can get the latitude and longitude on the server-side through the Google Maps HTTP Geocoding Service.
You would use the following HTTP request:
http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=Oxford+Street,+London&output=csv&sensor=false
Simply change the q parameter with your user's address.
I recently use the great php class call : Google Analytics PHP API. I manage to get it working to get a lot of info and stats for my 25+ website that have analytic
Now i like to get more data like
The page rank the google placement
(where i am on google #325 or #520)
Google Page Rank
Google Indexed Pages
Traffic Rank
Inbound Links
DMOZ Directory
Yahoo! Directory
get a summary (my way) much more like http://websitegrader.com
do you know a php class to do that ?
I guarantee you're not going to find one "class" that does all that for you.
Manually checking your site's rank on Alexa is probably going to be your best source of information on top of what Google Analytics is already giving you.
Google Analytics does NOT require any sort of API.
The site you linked to asks for your Google username/password. I'm flagging this question. I encourage others to do the same.
you can get all from alexa api (Alexa Web Services)
http://aws.amazon.com/awis/
but not free
$0.00015 per request ($0.15 for 1,000 requests)
i thought in the past to build a website to arrange an Arab sites
but arrived at the checkpoint
somme website use awis
www.statbrain.com
www.websiteoutlook.com
www.websitevaluecalculator.com