Google Analytics

How to use Google Analytics URL builder to track campaigns

We’re pretty big on measurement on this blog, and we use analytics to identify key topics, improve our content, and prove our effectiveness. To this end, we’re big users of Google Analytics. We use a bunch of custom reports, segments and dashboards for measurement but also the trusty Google URL builder (take our Advanced Data […]

Google Analytics: How to filter out spam traffic to get accurate data

When it comes to analysing your site’s traffic it’s often an assumption that the number of sessions you see in your Google Analytics account accurately represents the number of real people visiting your site, but this isn’t always the case.

Sometimes traffic isn’t a real person, sometimes it’s a bot, or spider, and sometimes it’s a spammer.