Affect of putting multiple sites in one GA account

Hi,
I am trying to figure out how having multiple sites, of the same topic, in the same Google analytics account affects the linking between those sites.
Are they considered less affective since they all relate to the same GA account?
I'd appreciate any information about this, relevant links, your personal opinion or recommended sources to go look for an answer in.
Thanks.

If they are on the same topic i would be cautious. Although they do not say it specifically, in my experience google doesnt like multiple websites of the same owner ranking. What i have seen happen is one of the websites rank, so in a way google puts all sites under the one. This would be especially obvious if the websites also ranked.

Hi,
First of all, thank for answering.
Second - I didn't understand what you meant by 'all the websites rank'. Did you mean that all got the same rankings? all got the same pr?

No it means that one domain will rank and the rest wont. Google will consider them as one websites. (kind of like duplicate content/Supplemental)

hi
seomonkeymanocp


Hi could you specify what you mean by my experience here specifically, I mean in my opinion while I understand arguments against one owner owning top ranking sites , still when I think about google as a business looking at offering their visitors the best possible matches to all kinds of different searches, why would they mind if 1 guy, organization or whatever is just such a pro developer or expert in his field that what ever he publishes is simply worth a good ranking?
I am not saying I disagree with you but just interested in the experiences you may have had that have re-inforced this opinion you stated, so is there anything you wouldnt mind sharing with us?
thanks

sami

I wouldn't worry about it. I haven't heard anyone come up with any evidence of Google devaluing a sites rankings because of their association with other sites on GA.

It's the purpose behind those websites that matter.

If you have websites meant solely to increase the ranking of your other sites, then you can only expect them to eventually be devalued/filtered.

Linking them to the same google account would logically speed up that process, but would not be the reason why problems arise.

hi guys
I was reading a post on Pubcon conference in Las Vegas
here .
Basically one of the notes the author makes about what was discussed/revealed etc at the conference was:

now while its not the same thing it does certainly open some room for more discussion on the issue.
sami

Well, I ended up using an alternative free tool for getting my analytic data of my sites. I didn't want to take the chance and hurting my sites. I mean, of course I am linking from site to site, that's one of the points of having network sites. It's not the whole point, but it's defiantly one of them, so the responses I got here about - it depend what the sites are for is not really relevant.

If any of you wants the alternative free tool, PM me and I’ll send you a link, (I don't want to be considered a spammer).
I've been using it for the past month and a half now and in the mean time very pleased.

Statcounter and other stats. But you really shouldn't put more than 2 at max because they could interfere with each other.

Well I am actually using histats.com which is great and I am testing another one now, still don't have any opinion on it yet since I started testing in only today - goingup.com
Both offer analytics data with multiple sites in one account. histats also offers adding users that can access the account. I didn't see this feature in goingup yet, (I emailed them about it though). The only downsize in histats so far is you don't have any indication about the sites stat from the 'all sites' dashboard. You have to go in each to check what going on with them. That's why I am checking goingup now.

i don't think it i will affect, because i having the same sites in one analytics account, also, i guess, you will not have problem with that,
else go for starcounter, com where you can multiple information just for registering..and implementing your code