[pmwiki-users] Google analytics

[Steven Benmosh]

For what its worth, I enclosed the script and it is found by adsense and in
the page source, but apparently not by the google analytics crawlers. I may
report it to google, if I ever find out how to contact them by email...

Thanks for your help,

Zvi.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Steven Benmosh <wordz2u at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Petko Yotov <5ko at 5ko.fr> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 29 August 2009 10:49:36 Steven Benmosh wrote:
>> > I have been using 2.2.1 for a long time, probably a couple of years,
>>
>> Version 2.2.1 was released in March this year, so you probably had an even
>> earlier version. Maybe 2.1.27?
>>
>
> Possibly. I picked 2.2.1 b/c there was a download directory of it, but
> maybe it was another update, or maybe I did not deploy it.
>
>>
>> > without changes. Since I installed the latest version (I think it was
>> > 2.2.4, about a week or two ago, and then there was a newer release which
>> I
>> > installed yesterday 2.2.5), I am getting reports telling me that there
>> were
>> > no visitors to the site. When I go to adsense.google.com, I can see
>> that
>> > there were page impressions, so I know people can and do access the
>> site.
>> > Yet I have errors having to do with blocked URL. I have not had such
>> > problems with the older version.
>>
>> PmWiki.org uses Google Analytics and it seems to work fine for us.
>>
>> > Does anyone have any idea if this may be the result of permission
>> changes,
>> > or robots policy changes between the 2.2.4 and the older version 2.2.1?
>> > Any other idea what might be causing this?
>>
>> Your skin doesn't seem to have the Google Analytics snippet which should
>> look
>> like this:
>>  <script src='http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js'
>>     type='text/javascript'></script>
>>  <script type='text/javascript'>
>>    _uacct = 'UA-1234567-1';
>>    urchinTracker();
>>  </script>
>>
>> This should be either in the skin template, or in a $HTMLHeaderFmt[]
>> variable
>> in config.php.
>>
>> You are using the default PmWiki skin and if you had modified it, it might
>> have been replaced by the upgrade. You should normally copy the default
>> skin
>> files to another directory, say myskin, add to config.php  $Skin =
>> 'myskin';
>> and modify these files instead of the default ones. (You may read the
>> README
>> document in the skin folder.)
>>
>
> OK, I looked in the different folders and config.php. The config.php I am
> using was not overwritten, as it has the adsense script in it. From looking
> at the different dates, it was not an issue of overwriting files, at least
> not the usual suspects.
>
> I tried changing the skins directory name to a new one that included a
> different template. This template was there before, and it contained the
> snippet of code for the tracker. I only hope it is the right tracker number,
> as this file is rather old.
>
> The problem I ran into with this approach was that it affected the
> resulting web pages - fields moved to the left, borders disappeared, etc. I
> tried putting the script in the header section, and in the footer section,
> but in either case the pages changed, so I abandoned this approach.
>
> I ended up inserting the script into the page I am using for the different
> group headers (I have a single file which I include in the different group
> headers). This seemed to provide the required code without breaking
> anything.
>
> I wonder if they may have made some changes in Google to the analytics. I
> have been getting requests to link the adsense and analytics accounts
> lately, and every time I click on the link it wanted me to sign up to
> analytics. I could not find my old account anywhere, even though I get an
> email from them every day...
>
> Thanks, I will let you know if it worked in a day or two...
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Petko
>>
>>
>
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