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.

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