[How To] Determine How Much Traffic is From Your vBulletin Archive Pages with Google Analytics

Gosh I got zero for both /archive/ and /sitemap/

Is it because my VB archive is on but on vBSEO I have the default 'Do not add Links to Archive Pages'?

I just set up Google Analytics so my stats are Zero. How long should I let Analytics monitor the site before I can get a good idea of whether I should pull my archives?

I would run it for about 30 days. However, if you see no traffic coming in within a couple of weeks then it would be fine to proceed before the 30 days.

Hey joe...thanks. One more quick question. I did a view source and came up with this down at the bottom:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-*******-1");
pageTracker._initData();

A good portion of the code appears to be commented out. I have it turned on in the control panel and I have the code entered (but not displayed here). Google says it still has not detected the code. Am I doing something wrong?

Do you mean the entire code for my index page? Also, why is it commented out?

Code:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-5978535-1");
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>

These are the very last lines of code on my index. As far as I can tell, this includes the entire analyitics code. My forums are located at www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums

Well, there may not be an error. I was concerned that parts of the code that google says are required is commented out. Google had said that it was not receiving data. But apparently while you and I were discussing it, the status has changed to "receiving data". As usual vBseo is smarter than me! .

You guys are great. Thanks Joe.

im the tie breaker

We still have the old archive option running (with complete links to the archive on every page) so I am thinking of removing it. I tried to lookup the Analytics Stats of the /archive/ but there is no tracking code on the archives.

I thought the following might work also: since visitors will first visit an archive page, and after that click on a thread that will bring them to the "normal" full thread page, the /archive/ could be considered as a "referrer link". So, if I don't see my own domain as a huge referrer, can I assume that no traffic exist from the /archive/ pages?

What do you think?