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This training is about setting up an exclusion within the GA4 analytics.

With the changes in All in One SEO plugin and the fact that they have dropped support for google analytics you also lose the ability to exclude yourself from your analytics.

So what do you do now.....

Two choices ...

One... install monsteranalytics plugin and allow them access to your Google analytics account or...

Two ...exclude your IP address from your Google analytics account.....

this works if you have a static ip address, if your is dynamic you will be changing it everytime your IP address changes......

And if your IP changes, unlike the older UA account there is no one filter ...each one is individual now so you will need to change each one if your IP address changes...

I know this as we had to reset our router and out IP address has now changed.....

I need to go through the accounts i have setup a rule in and change the address......

Anyway...watch the video and if you have any questions leave them below

and if you liked the video please click the like button

Many thanks

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Davekirby Premium
Hi,

Maybe silly question, but what is thee reason behind having to exclude an ip address?

Dave
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TheAbiePPlus Premium Plus
Hi, if you're not wanting include yourself in the stats, you'd want see true visitors engagement.
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feigner Premium
every time you visit your site - log in - check that updates have not upset your site - checked a few pages to see how they look - you are counted in your stats
this way, especially at the start, you can skew your analytics
once you start getting loads of visitors then it doesn't matter as much
i hope that helps
phil
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Davekirby Premium
Hi,

OK, great.
That explains it, I will make the change as I am just building out my website so do visit frequently.

Dave
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Davekirby Premium
Hi,

All done, thanks.
With GA4 do you still need to add the Measurement id to any post you want to track?

Regards

Dave
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feigner Premium
nope - once you add it to the head section as in hte training above then it is added on every page - so you need do nothing else to track your visitors
phil
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Davekirby Premium
OK, great.
Thanks

Dave
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JerryMcCoy Premium Plus
Thanks for the informative video.
Jerry
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feigner Premium
glad it is useful Jerry
phil
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Triblu Premium
Hey Phil,

Because my IP address is forever changing, I have found it difficult to obtain the entire list of literally hundreds of IP addresses that my internet provider pushes my connection to on a regular basis.

However, I have "Liked This" and tagged for sharing in the future.
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feigner Premium
Thanks Trish...
you are one of the ones better of using hte monsterinsights - where you can exclude logged in admins from analytics....
it was better when it was in all in one but it has disappeared
i think it is in yoast
but not rank math...
we had a power cut last night so i have got to go back through and change a few now......
phil
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RascalEliza1 Premium
Interesting!
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feigner Premium
well if you don't want to be counted then you need to exclude yourself
it used to be very easy - tick a box in aio and done
now you need to install monster insights which is just overkill for that or do this ...
it is a shame it has got so complicated ....
good luck
phil
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RascalEliza1 Premium
Thank you.
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baughsten Premium Plus
Would you be able to set up an exclusion in the property view section. of GA. I seem to recall seeing this idea in one of the GA training modules.
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feigner Premium
i think that maybe in the old version
before ga4 you could add a filter to the filter menu in the first column and that would be good
but having a poke around apparently that doesn't work in the new ga4 accounts ...so here is the training for the ga4 accounts....
thanks for the feedback Dan
phil
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CareyBoyer Premium
Why is this so important to do?
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ChrystopherJ Premium Plus
Because you don't want to falsify your stats by seeing all of your own requests, as it will not show true visitor engagement, as you are accessing your own website all day every day.
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CareyBoyer Premium
I see now what you mean now thanks fot answering my question
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feigner Premium
thanks Chrys...
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TheAbiePPlus Premium Plus
Hi, Chrystopher got you covered.
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