Google analytics now showing social signals
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Looking through Google analytics today and noticed that there is a section under top content that shows number of Facebook likes & shares, tweets, diggs, delicious book marks, etc. Anyone else seeing this?
[staff note: see answers, this came from a Chrome extension]
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Well the simple answer is that I made a mistake. It popped up again today and after doing some research yesterday and this morning I realized it is being populated by an extension that I have for chrome (started wondering about that when it showed up today in Chrome but not FF).
The social stats are being populated by the SEO Site Tools extension for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/diahigjngdnkdgajdbpjdeomopbpkjjc
Evidently this feature works intermittently as I have never seen it before and it only worked once yesterday and only on this page and I have been using it for about a month (for some odd reason it doesn't work on any other page).
So apologies for getting you all excited. If you want to read more about the tool SEJ did a review on it a while back: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-seo-tool-that-may-make-you-switch-to-google-chrome/20672/
Cheers
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If Google can not access "shares" how did it track them in GA? hmmm
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Thanks for the screenshot. I'll be on the lookout for any changes.
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Well, bummer, believe it or not but it is gone now. i attached a link with a box around where it was showing up. if I see it again I will take a screen shot of it. It was interesting because for the particular page it showed 6 likes and 1 shares, no comments for the facebook stats. so it distinguished between likes and shares somehow. Which is something I am fuzzy on as FB seemed to merge the two.
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Joshua, where exactly are you seeing this information?
I am looking at GA > Top Content and I do not see it in the sidebar nor anywhere on the page. I tried selecting a page result which is highly liked and +1'd but I did not see any reference to social signals.
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ya, it just shows up on pages where I have shares. otherwise nothing shows up.
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Nope. I'm not seeing it on my end. Don't know if its because im in another country or havent gotten any shares yet.
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