I recently set up a Google Analytics account for my local website. I had already been running Metatraffic. The difference in the logged visits is substantially higher in the Metatraffic tracking software. Is the Metatraffic possibly counting spiders?
jatar_k
4:19 pm on Jan 17, 2006 (gmt 0)
it could be. It could also be counting other things wrong, I am not really sure.
I would suggest looking through your logs to see what the differences are.
localguide
12:08 pm on Jan 26, 2006 (gmt 0)
Well, I checked my logs and found the culprit. I did not have a robots.txt file, and when search engines would look for it, instead of getting a 404 page, they are re-directed to my default page. This was also happening because I did not have a favicon.ico file.
Added the two files and the numbers are getting closer. Unfortunately, I am not getting the traffic I thought I was :-(
