First of all, I do not allow Google Analytics anywhere near any of my sites, ever. That is another discussion though.

Second, why would you want analytics on a private network? You are using the network to build backlinks. You are not generating traffic to the network. Rankings and traffic are not important on those sites.

The only tracking I do on my SEO network is to run sites through SpyGlass periodically to monitor incoming links. Just so I know if a site is losing links, I need to aim some high PR links at that site to maintain the PR.

Before your stick google analytics on any site. Make sure that site's cleaned. The anylatics is nothing than give google some access and deep stating.

kiss of death. If even one of your sites gets reported for links you have linked all of them together and will potentially jeopardize every last one. If the network is for SEo as Mike indicated you really don't even need much metrics

Thanks for the replies. My thought process was you have your main asset which is your network of high Page ranked sites that you are trying to grow and keep PR strong. I was thinking your also managing and growing the network and naturally you would want to see how your efforts are for growing and maintaining your network.

Mike F, are you saying that if you purchase a high PR site into your network you just let it do its thing as it is and never monitor its growth? I envisioned growing it to make it larger each month so that as your internal network grows it pumps out more juice to the site you have it pointed to and the only way to truley see whats working is with analytics.

I know in the case of Matt Laclears network they are all new .info so i can see how monitoring their variables are nill but I was thinking of buying big then growing. Thanks for the input and clarification guys.

Use StatCounter for that.

I Think I get where Nicholas is coming from and I like the analytical business approach. Nicholas for purpose of monitoring growth you can follow this with tools That analytics doesn't have to give you. You can monitor backlinks and PR which are the main indicators of your networks strength. In fact seoquake installed in Chrome or Firefox is going to give you alot of that just by visiting the sites.

Now if your sites are growing in traffic on their own then you might want to consider them kind of as a part of your money site group and treat them differently. However you are going to have to use separate analytic packages and make do with not having them all in one place because having them all under Google is exactly what you don't want. perhaps at some point you can look into paid services that allow their own metric tracking of multiple sites but google should be out or you won't have very many restful nights wondering what could happen. Tracking growth isn't worth the risk that they get deindexed.

As the Mike mentioned, if you can get away with not using Analytics DON'T.

Second, if you are building your own network don't even think about adding a the biggest footprint of them all, the same Google Analytics account.

Remember the idea of an SEO network is to reduce all possible footprints so that your network can never be "found" and then discredited. That means not registering your account with Analytics OR Webmaster Tools, etc.

Finally there's really no reason to use Analytics on these SEO networks. Do you care where traffic comes from? No. Is it important to find out visitor analytics? Not really. The whole point of an SEO network is to benefit your rankings.

That means you want to monitor things like pages indexed, backlinks, etc. Things that Analytics doesn't do anyways.