Is there any good counters out there for blogs?

[boobookitty]

Originally Posted by hony

I use extremetracker for free hosted sites. But most of my sites are on my own hosting and so I process the log files directly.

Google analytics is good but I wouldn't want G to know that all my sites belong to the same person! So I only use it on my mainstream sites that all have the same adsense code anyway.

ooops - does Google penalize you for that?
I have Google Analytics on all my blogs

[hony]

Originally Posted by boobookitty

ooops - does Google penalize you for that?
I have Google Analytics on all my blogs

Well it depends if you are trying to make it looks as though they are separate for linking purposes.

Say you are doing "ABC" linking with someone else -- you own A and C and they own B and the links go A->B->C.

The idea is that Google sees that as two individual one-way independent, natural, good quality, wholesome, nutritious, high vitamin, low calorie, gold plated links.

But if G knows that A and C are owned by the same person then of course it is more like a greasy spoon burger than a 5 star caviar if you see what I mean.

Just my opinion of course -- and who knows what G really thinks!

[Beaver Bob]

Originally Posted by boobookitty

ooops - does Google penalize you for that?
I have Google Analytics on all my blogs

I don't know if you get penalized or not, but this is why I haven't put google analytics on any of my blogs... cuz I'm worried it will.

[boobookitty]

Originally Posted by hony

Well it depends if you are trying to make it looks as though they are separate for linking purposes.

Say you are doing "ABC" linking with someone else -- you own A and C and they own B and the links go A->B->C.

The idea is that Google sees that as two individual one-way independent, natural, good quality, wholesome, nutritious, high vitamin, low calorie, gold plated links.

But if G knows that A and C are owned by the same person then of course it is more like a greasy spoon burger than a 5 star caviar if you see what I mean.

Just my opinion of course -- and who knows what G really thinks!

aha.. I see.
Well that makes sense...
*wonders if it's too late to take Analytics off and they will forget*

Originally Posted by Beaver Bob

I don't know if you get penalized or not, but this is why I haven't put google analytics on any of my blogs... cuz I'm worried it will.

I can understand why now.