{"id":73,"date":"2005-12-03T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmediatrends.fdim.fujacks.pil.dk\/?p=73"},"modified":"2013-02-25T21:09:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T20:09:32","slug":"google-analytics-helps-google-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/google-analytics-helps-google-serve\/","title":{"rendered":"Google analytics helps Google serve you the right ads, pushing up the price of advertising, defending themselves against not-so-knowingly competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I wrote a post on how Google\u2019s new site-analysis program could help grow the entire online advertising market<\/a>. This just might not be the entire truth of Googles motives for giving away this piece of hosted software application for free.<\/p>\n

Analytics makes Google know you better<\/strong>
\nThe thing is, that Google analytics has the potential of helping Google serve much more relevant ads to users of Google search engine. Every time you visit a site making use of Google analytics, you leave an electronic trace at the Google backend servers. And next time you visit a Google-powered site, Google will be able to tell \u201cAh, there\u2019s the guy<\/strong> who visited site XX the other day at 5.05 pm, and site YY the day after\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2026driving up prices for advertising
\n<\/strong>Since Google also reads through all the pages when doing its normal indexing of the web, Google will know not only what sites you visited, but also the content of them. In other words: Google will be able to tell that you\u2019re exactly in the target group<\/strong> for new cars, especially Volvo and VW, if you the past 2 weeks have been surfing intensely on car-websites, reading a lot about Volvo and VW.<\/p>\n

With this knowledge, Google will be able to tell Volvo or VW that sites powered by Googles ad-serving program are just the right place for them to advertise, and they\u2019ll start driving up the price<\/strong> of having their ads exposed to you.<\/p>\n

(While the price of advertising on Google.com itself has – at least this forth – been determined solely by what users enter into the searchfield, Google serve ads on a lot of other sites, where no search-terms aren’t being entered anywhere. In this the “adsense” adserving program Google guess the relevance of ads they choose to display based primarily on the content of the webpage on where the ad goes. It is the guesswork of this adserving programme the Google Analytics can help Google improve.)<\/p>\n

Data is<\/em> being collected<\/strong>
\nGoogle is for sure collecting these data. This is openly disclosed in Googles privacy policy<\/a>. Where they also state that they \u201cmay use personal information<\/strong> to <\/strong>provide the services you’ve requested, including services that display<\/strong> customized <\/strong>content and advertising<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026and they surely works<\/strong>
\nAnd if they\u2019re not already making use of the data this way, they have all the good reasons of the world to do it: Studies presented by CEO Scott Ferber<\/strong> of Advertising.com at an FDIM-conference in September showed very clearly how Advertising.com had been able to multiply the value of clicks<\/strong> on VW banner more than tenfold by using the very same technique.<\/p>\n

The number of people who made use of the configuration tool on the VW website and the number who submitted request for more info skyrocketed, when the ads were targeted to users who were known to be interested in VW<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

(I wrote a post – \u201cBest of all worlds<\/a>\u201d – from the conference, and lateron I uploaded Scott Ferbers slides<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Building up Googles position
\n<\/strong>This is not Googles first attempt to get data on you and your websurfing activities. From all your past searches on Google, you have already told Google<\/strong> your geographic location, your language and what you like to seach for. If you have an active gmail-account you\u2019ve also told Google who your friends and colleagues are, and what you write to each other. And if you have installed the Google toolbar, you already have told Google all it could hope to learn about your surfing activities.<\/p>\n

With Google analytics, Google has simply added one more stream of input-data<\/strong> about who you are and what you doing to their backend intelligence. One more steam of data, that can help Google build up their position as a high-quality advertising-network, pushing up the price of advertising and defending themselves against not-so-knowingly competitors.<\/p>\n

This post has been slightly revised at 8.32 am.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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