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Google Analytics can help you in a lot of interesting ways sometimes. Recently I noticed my traffic had dropped to zero:

What does this mean?

1. Nobody’s visiting the site
2. Web server died
3. Google stopped indexing my site and stopped referring links to the site.
4. Sky is falling

I knew the first option wasn’t the case since I usually have a low level of “background radiation” traffic even when I’m not posting. I knew for a fact my web server was up. I checked my robots.txt file and it was fine, so WTF?

Well, after checking my page source, realized I blew away my old Google Analytics code in the Wordpress Template, and the only thing that Google Analytics was reporting was the fact that I didn’t even have it installed!

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