How to track offline interactions using the Universal Analytics Measurement Protocol – what can and cannot be done with Measurement Protocol, and how to deploy it in practice. Primarily this will be focused on the use case of lead tracking, but the lessons here apply to any application of Measurement Protocol.
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Statistical Forecasting for SEO & Analytics – Distilled Post
Statistical forecasting is a powerful tool that’s been used at Distilled for a while, both by consultants when analysing client data and by our in-house monitoring tool that alerts us to problems with client sites. In this post, I’m publicly launching a free forecasting tool that I spoke about last week at BrightonSEO, and explaining how to make best use of it.
Quick Fix for Referral Spam in Google Analytics
This article originally appeared over at https://www.distilled.net/resources/quick-fix-for-referral-spam-in-google-analytics/. That URL 404s at the time of writing, hence the new location here.
There’s been a lot of talk recently about referral spam and how it’s ruining everyone’s analytics data. While this isn’t cause for panic, it is very annoying, and depending on the size of your site it could be having a very meaningful effect on your data.
Continue reading “Quick Fix for Referral Spam in Google Analytics”Misuses of 4 Google Analytics Metrics Debunked – Moz Post
In this post I’ll pull apart four of the most commonly used metrics in Google Analytics, how they are collected, and why they are so easily misinterpreted.
Omniture for Beginners: 2015 Update – Distilled Post
Back in December 2013, I wrote a tutorial post showing how to find basic analytics data in Omniture, and explaining differences in terminology between Omniture and Google Analytics. Both platforms have seen some changes since then, so this refresh restores the guide to its original usefulness.
How to Quickly (and Correctly) Track Google Analytics Across Multiple Domains – Moz Post
Out of the box, Google Analytics handles being deployed across multiple domains or subdomains extremely poorly. This quick easy post covers what you should be doing and how to do it.