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How To Fix Blogger's Broken "Manage tracking your own pageviews" Page Link

 

tl;dr

Click the broken link, and manually change the broken page address protocol from "https" to "http". Boom. Works.

The Goal: Better Stats

When trying to determine what my stats were on Blogger, I noticed Blogger was counting every time I looked at my own page. Viewing my own page really shouldn't count a "page view", so I figured there must be a place to turn off tracking myself.

 Turns out there IS a setting to do just this. If you go to Blogger > Stats > Overview, on the right-hand side of the page you'll see a link that says: "Manage tracking your own pageviews".

Yay! But when I click the link, I get this:

Boo. :-(

The Problem: Bad Link Address

I did a quick google search for a solution, but didn't find anything useful. After investigating the page on my own, I found out what's wrong.

Blogger has an "oops" in their system where they didn't update their "Manage tracking your own pageviews" page to be an HTTPS endpoint, even though they gave it an https link. Oops.

 Their link takes this form:
https://www.yourblogname.com/b/statsCookieManage?hl=en

 That one doesn't work. But this form actually does work: http://www.yourblogname.com/b/statsCookieManage?hl=en
Notice in the 2nd page address - the working page - there is no "s" at the end of the http.

Maybe they'll fix the page to be https someday. Or maybe they'll fix their link. But for now, let's adjust the address manually so we can see the management page & update our settings. This will work whether you have a basic blogger site or a custom website name.


The Fix: Adjust The Address From HTTPS to HTTP

First, Click the broken link. It will open the "site can't be reached" or "page not found" or whatever. That's perfect. 
Then, second, click into the page address bar and change the first part of the address from https:// to http://. That is, DELETE the "s" from "https". Then, hit Enter/Return on your keyboard, and the page should load successfully. You can then select to turn off tracking of your own page views to your page. 


This will notably increase the reliability of your stats. But remember, Blogger stats only knows that it's "You" if you're logged into your Blogger/Google account, so if you're not logged in then it won't know to filter out the views.
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Clinton J Nelson

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