[Richard Poe]

KarinG1 writes: Forgive my ignorance, but I don’t see why Google Analytics would know anything about traffic coming to your site from FR.

It is their job to know what traffic is coming to their clients' sites, and from where. It is precisely in order to learn such information that Web sites sign up for Google Analytics accounts in the first place.

The page I reproduced above from Google Analytics claims to show from what sites BadEagle.com received traffic between January 11 and February 10, 2009. However, the information it presents is wrong, because it ignores the traffic which BadEagle received from FreeRepublic during that time period.

[KarinG1]

If you would please continue to indulge me, and I appreciate your patience, how exactly would they know where I came to your site from? I don’t allow their scripts to run on my computer and I don’t allow referrer logging, so it seems to me that they would have difficulty tracking connections from my network. If they are doing so I’d really like to know how they do it so that I can put a stop to it.

[KarinG1]

You aren’t talking about click-throughs from ads are you? I’m not sure, but I don’t think FR displays any ads. The reason I’m not sure is that I don’t ever see any ads from any site. There are ways to avoid that. If that isn’t how you expect Google to track me, I still don’t understand what you’re getting at.