How to track site visitors across several browser sessions or computers using Google Analytics?

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Published on 2012-11-01T20:36:06Z Indexed on 2012/11/01 23:22 UTC
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If a site visitor clears cookies, uses various browsers or computers then Google Analytics will have a hard time detecting them as being by the same user.

However since 95% of the site content is only available when logged in, so I should be able to identify multiple visits as the same user so long as they log in.

How can I identify to Google that the visits are by the same user? (without breaking the Terms and Conditions)

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