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Google analytics?

bluemoo · 2009-12-02 22:20:55

What is stopping a competitor of a website, setting up a google anyalitics account and tracking and recording the web stats of their competitors website?...they would have many confidential figures such as page views ect?

02-12-2009 10:20pm

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What is stopping a competitor of a website, setting up a google anyalitics account and tracking and recording the web stats of their competitors website?...they would have many confidential figures such as page views ect?

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#2 02-12-2009 10:34pm

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you probably want to pose that question to Ross in Site Development. Or the guys in Web Development. Web Marketing.

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#3 03-12-2009 7:14am

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Simply enough, the same thing that stops people deleting/editing their competitions websites: passwords. You need to insert a script to tell Google to track your sites usage, so its as secure as any other element of your site

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