This plugin doesn’t have anything to do with Google indexing/spidering of your site. Is that what you mean or are you talking about a delay in Analytics data? A couple hour delay for stuff to show up in your Google Analytics report is pretty normal. If you want to see realtime stuff going on, you would need to go to the “Real-Time” area of your Google Analytics reporting.
“This plugin doesn’t have anything to do with Google indexing/spidering of your site.“
You ain’t got to be smart about it…And yes, Google indexing/spidering for my website has been delayed by 1-2 hours since I installed it.
Everything good far as Google Analytics concerned…
I wasn’t being smart, I just wanted to make sure we were talking about the same thing. But just to be clear this plugin doesn’t increase or decrease visits by Google’s spider.
If you are still having an issue with Googlebot visiting your site, I’d first check your overall crawl stats within Google Webmaster Tools here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/crawl-stats
That’s going to give you hard numbers of how much Google is spidering your site. If you feel that is lower than it should be, I’d double check any sitemaps you have defined for your site here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/sitemap-list
Make sure your sitemaps are valid (or set them up if you don’t have any).
While this plugin doesn’t do anything as far as generating sitemaps, there are a bunch of other plugins that do (if you need one): https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=sitemaps
As I also use my RSS feed (along with an XML sitemap) as a sitemap, I see the plugin changed up the RSS feed permalink structure a little bit after using the plugin to track the feed.
Now I know what the hold-up is on Google…
I wouldn’t think it would affect it, but if you are worried about it, you can disable the altering of the links under Settings -> General -> Link Source Tracking -> RSS
No point in doing it now since disabling all that wouldn’t make Google spider my site as quick as it did before…
