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How to Remove Referral Spam from Google Analytics

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When you review your Google Analytics stats and see your pageviews growing each month, you want to believe those pageviews are all from real people visiting and finding value in your site. Most of them are, but some are not.

 

 You can get a more accurate picture of your blog's traffic if you remove referral spam from Google Analytics. Learn how to easily eliminate spam traffic.

 

Referral spam (also called ghost referrals, crawlers, bots, and spiders) shows up in your referrals in Google Analytics and affects your pageviews and bounce rate. Some of these visit your site with the hope you will click back to their site. Others don’t actually even visit your site at all. [Read more…] about How to Remove Referral Spam from Google Analytics

How to Remove Your IP Address from Google Analytics

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Once you have added Google Analytics tracking to your blog, it is time to tweak those analytics to give you the best information possible. One way to do that is to eliminate your own IP address from being counted in your blog stats.

Once you learn how to remove your IP address from Google Analytics tracking and take 5 minutes to make that change your stats will become more accurate.

Chances are, nobody will spend more time on your own website than you will. But you don’t want your own page views on your site inflating your stats. Therefore, it is a good idea to remove your own IP address from being counted in your Google Analytics tracking.

It’s really easy to do and will take less than 5 minutes of your time. [Read more…] about How to Remove Your IP Address from Google Analytics

How to Use Google Analytics: Beginner Tutorial

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Once you have installed Google Analytics tracking code on your blog it is time to learn how to use Google Analytics and understand what all those statistics mean.
Google Analytics tracks tons of data about your readers & their behavior. Here's what you need to know most about how to use Google Analytics as a blogger.

Google Analytics tracks a ton of data that contains all kinds of information about your readers and their behavior. We are going to dive into the basics of what you need to know most about using Google Analytics. [Read more…] about How to Use Google Analytics: Beginner Tutorial