How to exclude your own traffic from Google Analytics - without a fixed IP address

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Google Analytics is great for measuring visitor behaviour on your website, however, if you don't exclude your own company's visits, the results can be badly skewed.

Google's preferred method of doing this is by identifying your PCs through their IP addresses (a connection address assigned by your internet provider) and excluding that traffic from the statistics. However, with the scarcity of IP addresses, IP addresses are rarely fixed (unless you pay extra) and are usually assigned out of a shared pool - making this solution non-viable in the majority of cases.

The solution is to store a cookie on the machines that you want traffic excluding from and then inform Google Analytics of the name of that cookie.

But how do you - as a non-developer - store a cookie? And then how do you tell Google Analytics about it? Just follow the step by step instructions below:
 

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