This is a post on how to create custom Google Analytics Profile Segments for the purpose of removing referral spam (and there is increasingly soo much of it!) from GA reporting. However if you want to use these new Custom Segments to filter results using Google Analytics API with a Service Account there are some […]
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BC Hydro made an amazing social media turnaround to communicate with customers in crisis! Go BC Hydro! On August 29, 2015 high winds caused tree falls that took out BC Hydro power lines throughout BC’s Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, Sunshine Coast leaving up to 500,000 customers without electricity. Many including me were without power for
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Google Analytics data has become incredibly polluted by “spam referrals” which inflate site visits with what are essentially spam advertisements delivered to you via Google Analytics. The spammers are entirely bypassing your site and directly hitting Google’s servers pretending to be a visitor to your site. Its a bit odd that a technological superpower like
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The City of Toronto’s open data site includes the results of the city’s regular food and restaurant inspections. This data was as of August 2014. The interactive chart below allows filtering by review criteria and can be zoomed into to view more detail and specific locations. The data file for Dine Safe contained about
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A while back LinkedIn sneakily vacuumed up all of my contacts from my phone via the Android Cardmunch app. Turns out Cardmunch is owned by LinkedIn. There must be fine print somewhere that indicates they do this but I sure didn’t see it. Many of my contacts that were imported were out of date and in
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