Posts Tagged ‘Analytics’

July 6th, 2010Hayden Digital Redesigns MarketingTeacher.com

Marketing Teacher approached Hayden Digital to refresh the look and feel of their online marketing resource site. The website contains a vast number of free lessons, exercises and resources for marketing students around the globe. Consisting of over 250 content pages and with a large portion of the sites traffic coming through search engines and inbound links it was critical that URL changes were managed with traffic in mind.

Each page was assigned a new more consistent and search engine friendly URL and all redirections were managed with 301 redirects to ensure not a single hit was missed, and the huge amount of PageRank the site had accumulated over the past 10 years was not lost.

The new website went live at the beginning of July – Take a look!

June 23rd, 2009How to prevent unauthorised domains affecting your Google Analytics reports

We recently discovered that not only had someone copied our entire site design and code, they hadn’t even bothered to change the tracking code, so their hits were being counted in our Google Analytics account, which was making a mess of our reports.

The workaround was fairly simple, all we had to do is add a custom ‘include’ filter on the profile settings page within Analytics.

google-analytics-filters

The code you need

Simply add a ‘Custom filter’ with the following settings:

Filter Type include
Filter Field hostname
Filter Pattern yourdomain\.com
Case Sensitive no

Don’t forget to escape the dots in your domain name with a backslash, as this string will be parsed as a Regular Expression by Google, and an un-escaped . character will match any character.

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