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What does Google Know About You?
September 24th, 2007 | 5 commentsJust a very short thought that I unfortunately do not have much intellectual input on. Really just food for thought…
So what does Google know about you? ALOT if you use the Google Toolbar and/or Google Analytics.
If you have analytics installed on all of your sites they know that all of those sites are related, throwing away any hopes of making them appear to be unrelated by hosting on separate c-blocks and using different registrars.
If you use the Google Toolbar they know what sites you visit, how often you visit them etc. etc. etc. If you frequent sites that are in a bad neighborhood defined by Google, who knows; they may lower your rankings.
How can you prevent this? Uninstall the google toolbar if you currently have it installed and use a completely different analytics account for each site that you don’t want Google to know is related to others.
Like I said, just food for thought.
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24th September, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Luckily I don’t use the toolbar
I did heard somewhere long ago that it is not safe or necessary to install it so I never installed it.
25th September, 2007 at 3:09 am
Hi Josh,
I wrote a couple of posts about Google Analytics and some good alternatives last month. I found an open source analytics program I have been using on a few of my sites. http://www.brentcrouch.com/?s=analytics&search=Search
What I have never quite understood is these guys using black hat tactics that link multiple sites with the same theme. If you put adsense on each one of them, isn’t it obvious to google they are all related?
There are also some arguments that using private who is data is not effective since Google is a registrar. I don’t buy into this argument. But unless you have 30 adsense accounts, how do blackhatters put adsense on related sites that all link together?
Good Luck,
Brent Crouch
25th September, 2007 at 3:14 am
Hey Brent,
I love Google analytics and I’ll personally keep using it. The thing is, when you have 50+ niche sites some of them are going to be related. I like to link my own sites that are related together. If google knows that these sites are registered to the same person they are going to give very little if any juice to those links so i want them to be seen as unrelated to Google.
You have a good point in the black hat stuff. Most of these black-hat niche sites with the same theme are absolutely pitiful! I don’t understand why they put so much effort into them when it’s obvious that they’re junk. It’s either working for them or they just don’t know any better. I’d bet its the later.
25th September, 2007 at 7:04 am
Oh geez, Google probably knows how much change I have in my pocket right now and about the uncle with the extra nipple.
It is a little scary how Big Brother the internet has allowed everything to come, but I prefer to believe there is safety in the masses. With so much data to crunch, I doubt anyone at Google is going to be to do much more than get a feel for trends.
Of course, the fact that Google is paying all my bills right now (woo for Adsense) probably makes me an unreliable commenter.
26th September, 2007 at 9:06 am
The Internet’s best feature is that it is easy to share information unfortunately it’s worst feature is that it allows you to share information. Using the internet is to privacy as full time public nudity is to modesty.