How do you know if GA has indexed your site?
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How do you know if GA has indexed your site?
Check your Google Analytics Account. Otherwise you can check it through your hosts most hosts provide simple reporting like Awstats, or Webalizer which all tell you when spiders visit your site. Its not real time though. Crawler alert is nice unless you have many sites that you are tracking then it just becomes another piece of email to delete. I usually will use it until I first see some action and then take it down. In most cases its only up a couple of days. G is being really quick these days to index sites.Quote:
Originally Posted by thebingofinder
Not entirely sure what you mean by this, Google Analytics never indexes your site - it is all reported on a page by page basis using Javascript to my knowledge.
If you mean you have entered the tracking code but it is not reporting yet, then I have known this to take about a day to show up. Make sure the code is placed correctly and wait a few hours...
I'm assuming you've added the code and you're not getting data yet, right?
Don't worry - it takes around 24 hours before data starts showing up in your account, sometimes a little longer. It is advisable to check that the code is being displayed correctly - the easiest way to do this is to look at the page source.
Agree, Analytics isn't dependent on the indexing of your site.
To check if your site or pages are indexed, go to Google's Webmaster Central.
I suppose that the question was about the tracking code, though I can be wrong. There's a special mark right to the name of your site telling you whether the tracking code is installed correctly or not. You'll start getting data in 24 hours after installing GA.