Background:
I found that most of the clicks on Googles Ads are invalid and around 95% of the conversions are spmammers. Then I want to ask to get full refund, but Google Ads asked me:
Web log file is log file automatically created and maintained by a web server. Every "hit" to the Web site, including each view of a HTML document, image or other object, is logged. The raw web log file format is essentially one line of text for each hit to the web site. In order to investigate further please share the Website Activity/ Web log report for the date range for which you got invalid clicks for more details please refer to the Web Developer.
Question:
Could you help me to understand where I can download the web activity file? where is it? how does it call on GCF?
Many thanks,
Tany
I asked Google Cloud Flatfrom support and they didn't understand what their 'friends' from Google Ads want.
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I have created a Youtube API application to enable access to Youtube API for Integromat. All my Youtube API application does it gives access to my Youtube channel videos for Integromat. Integromat grabs the links to videos and uploads the links to my Airtable. So the only user for the Youtube API is going to be myself and my own Integromat workflow.
The Youtube API app is in development. I want to verify the app to get rid of the 1-hour deactivation of the authorization (Integromat connection to Youtube API breaks after 1 hour).
To get verified, I looked the steps here https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/7454865?hl=en. The first step it tells me to do is "Update the OAuth consent screen details" and I go to that screen and shows the publishing status. Do I click to "publish to production"?
When I click that, it tells me:
Your app will be available to any user with a Google Account.
Screenshot showing the step to publish my app
That's sounds scary. What does it mean?
I do not need (nor want) have other users logging to my Youtube API. I am the only user and Integromat is the only app that will access the Youtube API.
I am novice in this and don't have much idea about programming so I don't even know what questions I should be asking here.
Thanks.
Here are more details about what I am trying to do in Integromat:
Youtube API Integromat testing app - connection getting disabled
It means that you will be able to share your app via that link with anyone you please. The whole point of an API is that it's available publicly, at least on a technical level. Whether you're actively soliciting users is an entirely other matter, naturally.
How does Google Analytics know where visitors were when they came to our website? I understand when the referral source is Google search or Google Ads, but how does it know a user clicked a link on LinkedIn or from WhatsApp?
Google Analytics can understand source like Linkedin.com from document.referrer but he can't know source like Whatsapp or Outlook desktop so it will be Direct traffic. You can append UTMs parameters to the querystring of the URL to force custom source/medium.
I am trying to display and maintain a separate Google calendar for each user on my Django website. I also want to synchronize each users' Google calendar on the website, with their actual Google Calendar so that events are maintained and displayed not just on the website, but when they log into their Google Calendar through their Google account.
I have no idea how to approach this. Does anyone know how I can do this?
The first thing you are going to have to do is look into OAuth2 for authentication this will allow you to access your users Google Calendars. You will just need to save the refresh Token for each user then you will be able to access the information again by requesting a new access Token.
After that you should look into the Google Calendar API reference
There is also a Google Client library for python that will probably make things a lot easer. Google APIs Client Library for Python.
I don't have any django or python experience so I cant help you out with any code. But if you get stuck just ask a new question on Stack. These links should at least give you an idea of where to start.
Can anybody explain exactly how a web beacon works? I know they're generally used by advertising platforms but i can't really find a good explanation on how they're working.
I know that cookies aren't accessible cross-domain. A web beacon is an image that sends a request to the server, and the server adds a cookie to the response, right? So how can it be accessed on different domains?
Thanks!
When an HTML page is downloaded the browser parses the page and looks for additional resources needed to display the page, such as images. For each image it finds the browser makes another request to a server in the background. When servers receive requests, they usually log the request to monitor load on the server, and record information about who sent the request and where it came from. A web beacon is a tiny invisible graphic that generates a request to the tracking firm's server. They record the request in their logs and then analyze their logs to see who went where and did what and when.
When returning the image from their servers to the browser, they can also send down information to be added to a cookie. There are third-party cookies that can be tracked across domains. If you come back to the site, and the beacon request is made again, that cookie will also be sent up in the request to the server and the tracking firm will have more information about you.
Think about this. Even though you are visiting myfavoritesite.com the web beacon image is being requested from trackers.com. The cookie they create is assigned/locked to their domain, trackers.com. But if you then surf over to myotherfavoritesite.com, and they too are sending web beacons to trackers.com, the cookie will essentially be shared between the two sites. There are more considerations here, but that is the basic premise.
Bug bug (also known as Web beacon) is very important tools commonly used by online advertiser as marketing or advertisement analysis tool for tracking and monitoring the activity of users on a website or marketing content i.e: blog or email. An expert advertiser inserts web bug in his content (usually on website and email) in order track how many people opened a particular content, on which application and country his content is being viewed. So, whenever advertisement display by third-party just know that you are being tracked for marketing analysis purpose.
Bug bug tools are provided freely or premium mostly by CRM service providers like Hubspot CRM, Freshsales CRM, Salesforce CRM, etc. However, a Web bug PHP code can also be used for this if tracking service by CRM provider is not available. Continue reading
And instead of going off and creating one using Php and Apache redirects, my vote is that you go to http://webbeak.com and create one, use it, and track it. No cost either.
I'm reading the Terms of use which can be found here: http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/terms.html
But I do not see anything telling how Google use the data provided to generate the charts. Can someone be kind and enlighten me?
The Privacy Policy is likely to apply here. The relevant part should be:
Log information – When you access
Google services via a browser,
application or other client our
servers automatically record certain
information. These server logs may
include information such as your web
request, your interaction with a
service, Internet Protocol address,
browser type, browser language, the
date and time of your request and one
or more cookies that may uniquely
identify your browser or your account.
In combination with
Affiliated Google Services on other
sites – We offer some of our services
on or through other web sites.
Personal information that you provide
to those sites may be sent to Google
in order to deliver the service. We
process such information under this
Privacy Policy
Because you send the chart information with the URI and thus they will at least log it.