Will using Google Analytics have a negative effect on my ranking?

[agapitoflores001]

He really has a good way of answering questions. He also tries to answer possible follow up questions from other subscribers.

[unleashed786]

uploaded on my birthday omg

[RemusLt]

Nobody exactly know what you are using there or not using :)

BTW I see on youtube more and more related ads to what I am searching on google :D

[TubesMaster]

>>"As for today May 17th 2010"

>checks out today's date: June 9th

>checks the upload date June 7th

>sigh

[Capnwabbit]

Why did this link have to be a video? No idea what you're saying as I can't turn on my sound at work. This is just a talking head, you could have done this as text and saved the bandwidth

[g0ste]

@Capnwabbit you can turn on closed captions (subtitles). Click the CC button.

[silkbingo]

Thank you, Matt. And, BTW, I'm using ThinkPad too! :) Need to say GA really had become much faster lately. Thank you guys, it was really questionable for us to stay with GA or not exactly because of performance issue.

[sayweb]

mine and everyone else's concern is the amount of POWER google has over our online lives. the email, the stats of the site, the ranking..... I did remove Google analytics from my site for a while out of paranoia. There must be something else other then Google to do everything.

[wis3384]

thank u matt...ur answers sessions are better now...tackling the question and going answering the neighboring questions thats caused by the initial q... great job!

[drekaham]

if i resubmit my sitemap in WMT too much can that harm my site ranking in google?

[yaroukh]

Your page, website and dog will be removed from the internet.

[slavikvol]

Is Matt saying that Google could start using GA data as a ranking factor in the future? I don't think this will happen, but I'd like a bigger reassurance than "as of today"

[DanoruX]

Very useful info.

[gol65]

Whenever Matt says "to the best of my knowledge" the answers don't sound too convincing

[eurlings]

Hi Matt, What if the bouncerate is too high on a certain keyword the website has a great position ? There must be some consequense ? KR Mark

[newvalue3776]

I think I had a shirt just like that in 1974.

[MarketingEmpire]

@newvalue3776 yo... that is a nice shirt. I want it

[yogeshsarkar]

Site loading slowly is exactly the reason why I have stopped using Google Analytics, as I want the sites to be as fast as possible to the end users. Of course if you guys could come with something a little faster or a module for Apache etc. to ensure the processing is done in background, rather than on the frontend, it would be great for webmasters like me.

[pusztatube]

@yogeshsarkar didn't you hear the part where he talked about the async version of analytics?

[yogeshsarkar]

@pusztatube yes I did and probably will give it a try again to see if it has made any difference, however till one is asking users to download another thing in order to see the page, there will be delays.

I personally believe that analytics etc. are best run in the background, rather than front end.

[troglodyte3344]

@pusztatube do we have to get that code and add it to our analytics? thanks