Google Analytics has a way of filtering a given IP or set of IPs, but then again most people have dynamic IPs rather than static, which makes it unpractical to enter your own address if you want to filter out your own visits. Do you know of any way to do that reliably?
Once you know your IP address, you simply add a Filter to Google Analytics under “Settingsâ€. 1. Click Filter Manager from the Analytics Settings page 2. Enter a Filter Name, such as “Exclude My Company Visits†3. From the Filter Type drop-down list, select Exclude all traffic from an IP address 4. The IP address field will auto-populate with an example IP address showing dots and backslashes. Enter the correct value, but keep the dots and backslashes; those are necessary for Google to read the address properly. For example, if the IP address to filter is 176.168.1.1 then the IP address value will be 176\.168\.1\.1 If you connect to the internet with a dynamic IP address (which is the default for most cable and DSL connections), your IP address is subject to change. In some cases the IP address will change infrequently, so you can still filter it from your data, but you’ll have to check the address periodically to make sure it stays the same.
If you are using dynamic IP's then it's really impossible to filter your ip's because DHCP takes new Ip every time you boots your system.
I was pretty sure that someone would come saying that.. lol Plz read my post well. "If you connect to the internet with a dynamic IP address (which is the default for most cable and DSL connections), your IP address is subject to change. In some cases the IP address will change infrequently, so you can still filter it from your data, but you’ll have to check the address periodically to make sure it stays the same."
That is not a solution. In a matter of fact, there is no prominent solution for this. Analytics WILL count your visits if you don't filter the whole IP range of your ISP.
I have a dynamic ip, mainly first two numbers of my ip are same all the time i get an ip, which makes it a bit easy for me to figure out my own visits I think it will not be that easy to filter out google must get such update soon
There is a way to filter your own visits using a cookie if you are using a dynamic IP. You would upload a file with a cookie into your root directory and visit it (but don't tell anyone else of the URL and do NOT link to that file from any pages). You can then make a filter in Analytics to discount any visits where that cookie is detected. I'll try to find the site I saw the instructions on and post the URL, it worked for me on a previous site but has been deleted since.
Reread : https://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55481&hl=en_US&utm_id=ad Here is the juicy part: How to exclude traffic by cookie: 1. Create a new page on your domain, containing the following code: <body onLoad="javascriptageTracker._setVar('test_value');"> (Please note that this code is in addition to the Google Analytics tracking code that you have on every page of your website.) 2. In order to set the cookie, visit your newly created page from all computers that you would like to exclude from your reports. 3. Create an Exclude filter to remove data from visitors with this cookie. Follow these instructions http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55494 to create a filter with the following settings: Filter Type: Custom filter > Exclude Filter Field: User Defined Filter Pattern: test_value Case Sensitive: No let me know if there is anything unclear.