It is a little scary how Big Brother the internet has allowed everything to come, but I prefer to believe there is safety in the masses. With so much data to crunch, I doubt anyone at Google is going to be to do much more than get a feel for trends.

Of course, the fact that Google is paying all my bills right now (woo for Adsense) probably makes me an unreliable commenter.

I love Google analytics and I’ll personally keep using it. The thing is, when you have 50+ niche sites some of them are going to be related. I like to link my own sites that are related together. If google knows that these sites are registered to the same person they are going to give very little if any juice to those links so i want them to be seen as unrelated to Google.

You have a good point in the black hat stuff. Most of these black-hat niche sites with the same theme are absolutely pitiful! I don’t understand why they put so much effort into them when it’s obvious that they’re junk. It’s either working for them or they just don’t know any better. I’d bet its the later.

I wrote a couple of posts about Google Analytics and some good alternatives last month. I found an open source analytics program I have been using on a few of my sites. http://www.brentcrouch.com/?s=analytics&search=Search

What I have never quite understood is these guys using black hat tactics that link multiple sites with the same theme. If you put adsense on each one of them, isn’t it obvious to google they are all related?

There are also some arguments that using private who is data is not effective since Google is a registrar. I don’t buy into this argument. But unless you have 30 adsense accounts, how do blackhatters put adsense on related sites that all link together?

Good Luck,

Brent Crouch