I got the cookie method of excluding my traffic to work when I didn’t specify the domain. Now that I have specified the domain, it no longer works. It appears to be setting two cookies, the exclude.html page I created is setting a cookie of “mydomain.com” and the google analytics is setting a cookie of “www.mydomain.com”.
Here is the code for my exclude.html page.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Exclude Me</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setVar', 'exclude_me']);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'www.mydomain.com']);
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxxx-x']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function () {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>
This computer now has a cookie placed on it to exclude it from any Google Analytics reports.</p>
<p>
If you delete your cookies, you will need to revisit/reload this page again.</p>
</body>
</html>
I added the _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'www.mydomain.com']); to try and get it to work which doesn’t appear to be doing anything. That is the way I have it setup for all the other pages, using the http://www.mydomain.com.
As I was typing this it appeared to me that the ‘_gaq.push([‘_setDomainName’, ‘www.mydomain.com’]);’ should probably be put in before ‘_gaq.push([‘_setVar’, ‘exclude_me’]);’ So I switched them around and it is no longer creating two different cookies, so hopefully that works.