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After Artfire.com and Etsy.com launching statistics capability by using Google Analytic, I felt like a little overwhelming with all these data! I have been watching all sorts of information how to use Google Analytic. For example, videos from Youtube.com and many others people, so called experts, experts writing about how to use and interpret Google analytic. OLD DAYS: I remember the time when I was studying in college. I always read different journals for different subjects, I read books, magazines, financial times to enhance my knowledge and references in order to finish my papers! After I graduated, I swore to myself no more journals, papers, textbooks to read for the rest of my life! Indeed, I didn't read anything longer than a page for a long long time. NOW: Guess what just happened? I started to read all these different people's writings about how to interpret the statistics collected by Google!!! OMG!!! I broke my words! It has been 2 full days whenever I have time to sit in front of computer, I tried to read more about Google Analytic! Enough is enough, I think I should try to get away from computer and try to create something instead. Otherwise, I think I will go crazy by no time! :) Off to go to have some tea and ice-cream!

I found this post from Etsy forum, but I think it's very useful for us to get the real statistics without us going in and out our own studio. This post is original posted by FrucciDesign from Etsy! (((( This post is not written by me! ))))

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If you want to exclude your own visits from GA you need to set this up on your GA account and here is how: SHORT VERSION read this: http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55481 find your IP here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/ STEP BY STEP: ►go to the homepage of GA, ►find on the bottom right of the page FILTER MANAGER ►click it ►in the new page click on the gray tab "+ADD NEW FILTER" ►in the new page add a name (what you want) in the blank field "Filter name" ►in the "Filter Type" drop-down menu select EXCLUDE ALL TRAFFIC FROM AN IP ADDRESS ►choose which website you want to "Apply Filter to Website Profiles" (i.e. yourshop.etsy.com) and click ADD ►in the next new page the IP address field will be already filled in (be careful that is just an fictional IP used as an example for the right formatting of the number) ►enter your value that can be found here (►http://whatismyipaddress.com/" href="http://whatismyipaddress.com/" class="linkification-ext">http://whatismyipaddress.com/) *REMEMBER* the right format for the IP number has a \ before each dot, example if you have 176.168.1.1 then the IP address value will be:176\.168\.1\.1