All these statistics! Traffic, time on the site, bounce rate, oh my! Whatever happened to keeping it to just plain old "hits"? Plus, who possibly has the time to go through all of these measurements?! Which leads to the fact that Google Analytics... 2. May Cause Addiction And yet they don't ever actually warn you of this. No Surgeon General's warning about the harm to women who are pregnant or may become pregnant.
But from what I hear, you can easily be sucked into the a bahrain mobile phone numbers database byss that is Google Analytics and suffer from a metrics-obsessed sickness. 3. Keywords and other so-called Traffic Sources Why would I possibly want to know where my traffic is coming from? I come from the school of surprise: I'd rather guess at my keywords, then hope and pray that they're actually working. Same with link building - I give it my best shot and just cross my fingers that someone will link to me.
4. Giving Big G too much information. Google sees everything you see. Think about that...they know everything. Do you really want to be responsible for giving them that kind of power? Supposedly that's the trade off for the fact that... 5. It's free. Ever heard you get what you pay for? Well...free says it all. I'm headed over right now to start researching some of those high priced Analytics programs that don't give me nearly as much applicable information.
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