Remove Google Analytics Tags In Your Blog Posts and Feedburner URL

Feedburner is an amazing tool for managing RSS and atom feeds. Many of us use this service for burning our own feeds, may be from our own sites and blogs.  We can also use the email subscription feature and integrate the feeds with Google Adsense.

feedburner logo

Recently Feedburner has enabled Google Analytics to analyze the feeds, clicks and track them.  But when we use this feature to track the feeds, we have found out one problem. We had enabled this feature in our Blog and the URLs of our posts included the Google Analytics tracking tags like “utm_source=feedburner &utm_medium=feed &utm_campaign=Feed%3A “ . An example of such URL can be seen below:

Original URL:

http://www.techrena.net/internet/google-nexus-one-launch-jan-5-price-530/

URL indexed in Google after enabling tracking:

http://www.techrena.net/internet/google-nexus-one-launch-jan-5-price-530/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TechrenaDotNet+(TECHRENA+dot+Net)

There are some problems incorporated in such kind of URLs. The main problem is that the Search Engine Optimized(SEO) URL has been changed and indexed. Another thing is that duplicate URLs of the same content may be indexed and your Google ranking may decrease or may stop crawling of your posts.  It may lead to a broken link also.

SOLUTION:

The solution is very simple. Follow the steps below:

Step 1: Login to Feedburner.

Step 2: In the Analyze tab, click Configure Stats

feed burner configure stats

Step 3: Uncheck the Track clicks as a traffic source in Google Analytics Check Box

feed burner track clicks

Step 4: SAVE it.

Now you have successfully disabled Google Analytics tags in your post URLs.

If you are done with this, you can read our previous post about finding number of email subscribers to your feeds.

Google Analytics Desktop Client Trakkboard

Google Analytics is a great data  management that everyone must use for their website, isn’t it? Not a big deal if you just have one or 2 websites.But these are people getting compromised with just having gone or two sites? Not really, right. But how to manage all analytics of those sites at one place? Luckily, there is a much simpler solution in town.

Trakkboard is a desktop application that draws data across different Google Analytics logins and different Google Analytics profiles to display top level metrics all within the same view.

Built using the Google Analytics API, this application works based on Adobe AIR platform.So you must have first installed Adobe Air package first in your PC.

Pre-canned report widgets display the data from the API.What’s more interesting is that this widget can pull data from API every hour.

How to get Trakkboard?

Enter Trakkboard site,

Enter your email and select accept GTC and click “request key”

Trakkboard registration email

The key will be delivered to your email.

Open your mail and verify your registration, and download and install the Trakkboard application

After installing, you must complete the next 3 steps

  • enter your license key that has been mailed to you.
  • choose a password for the application
  • fill in your Google account details associated with Analytics in the step 3

That’s it, add your various Analytics profiles and use it straightaway.

trakken dashboard

Have you tried it already? leave your comment

Note: Trakkboard is also available in German and Spanish