At the beginning of each month, I put together a SmartStats report for our clients that details various online metrics from the previous month.  One tool I use to do this is Google Analytics.  Well this month, while putting together reports for February, I noticed cities appearing twice in the Map Overlay section:

Cities showing up twice in Google Analytics

Cities showing up twice in Google Analytics reports

When I change the dates to Jan 1-31, it’s fine.  So the problem must have creeped up in February.

When something goes wrong with Google, where do you search?  Google.  Doing a couple Google searches didn’t yield any answers, just more people complaining the geographical report is reporting the same city multiple times and duplicate cities appearing in map report.

It’s not the first time it’s happened.  Search Engine Roundtable reported the same problem of duplicate cities in Google Analytics back in August 2008.

Hope it’s fixed soon. Or else I’m switching to Woopra!

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Ah, a new year.  A time to go out with the old and in with the new.  Many people use this time to get rid of junk that’s been sitting in the garage/attic/basement since before Netscape has its IPO.  (August 9, 1995)  But what about cleaning up the junk that’s sitting in your social media feeds?

Whether it’s blog feeds going into your favorite RSS reader (I’m a fan of Google Reader, myself), the number of friends you have on Facebook, the number of people you’re following on Twitter, or your connections on LinkedIn, you probably volunteered to receive a lot more crap in 2009.  Technology has made it so easy to say “Yes, please!” to so many different sources of information that the end result can be information overload.

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