Competitor using same Google Analytics code

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I’ve just looked at the Google Analytics for a clients site. The stats are there, but so is a competitors stats, jumbled up with my clients.

I’ve looked at the source code of the competitors site. They have copied my code, including the Google Analytics UA code.

Does this mean they can see my clients stats? How can I remove them from my clients Google Analytics?

Presumably we can write them a very strongly worded letter telling them that they have illegally copied my site.

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No, it probably means that they made a typo when coding their site. The code you put into your pages is not used in any way to authenticate to the Google service – you don’t use that to log in, in other words – so they cannot see your hits. More to the point, they can’t see their own hits, either.

Walter

On Oct 7, 2011, at 5:11 AM, Mark wrote:

I’ve just looked at the Google Analytics for a clients site. The stats are there, but so is a competitors stats, jumbled up with my clients.

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Hi Walter

Thanks for clarifying that.

They had actaully done a copy and paste on all of my HTML. But the amateur who did it also copied the Google Analytics, hence we were seeing their stats and were alerted to the copy.

After having a polite chat with them, they have taken their site down.

Mark

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