Can you have too many analytics/SEO programs?

BreLove · #1 (**permalink**) 10-17-2009, 09:20 AM

Bluehost is offering a free analytics type program that will crawl your pages, provide visitor stats and, I believe, submit information to the Search Engines; however, Google (Adsense) and WordPress have very similar programs. I don't think I have enough content for all this as I'm still building but I'm wondering if I should take advantage of all or just one. Is it possible to get different stats or to cause inaccurate information if the programs don't work together? Any ideas?

Jose King · #2 (**permalink**) 10-18-2009, 08:35 PM

It is better to consider only one of these programs as if you use all these programs, it won't give you a lot of benefit and things will become overcomplicated for you which can also affect your website rankings. Hence, it is better to select one and stay with it

BreLove · #3 (**permalink**) 10-18-2009, 08:57 PM

Perfect, thanks for the advice!

Ileane · #4 (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 01:15 AM

I agree with Jose King. Since you don't have that many pages on your site you don't need all of those traffic reports now. As you begin to build your site you can add more. There are different methods used to compile stats and some will produce what might appear to be conflicting results based on your needs and goals.

I use Google Analytics and AW Stats (at work) and the WordPress.com stats for my blog.
At work, our website has hundreds of pages and the reports generated by AW Stats are what I like to call TMI - Too Much Information.

On the other hand the reports from Google Analytics are much simpler and provide "actionable" information. If you want to learn more you can check out Avinash Kaushik, Google's evangelist for web analytics.
http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/media-mentions-podcasts

Good luck with your stats.

BreLove · #5 (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 06:33 AM

Thank you Ileane and I meant to tell you, I really like your blog!

Ileane · #6 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 07:40 PM

Thanks BreLove. The next time you stop by my blog, can you please comment?
Thanks again - Ileane

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