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New Google Plus Referral URL

Tweet Until now it’s been possible to track referral traffic from Google Plus simply by filtering to ‘plus.google’ in the referrals report in Google Analytics or your favourite analytics package. This changed on December 3rd when Google started redirecting most traffic through a new subdomain, plus.url.google.com. If you want to see referrals from both plus.google [...]

Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:12 am by chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Google Analytics Real-Time Hacks

Tweet Google Analtyics Real-Time has given us some interesting new ways to meaure activity on our site in real-time. However this really only makes sense if you’re able to respond in real time to the data which doesn’t fit the pattern for the majority of analysis and optimisation. If the data is useful to analyse [...]

Posted on November 4, 2011 at 9:34 am by chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Why you must embrace the Open Graph

Tweet Open Graph tags are more important than the Like button. Much more… Some people who add Open Graph tags and the Like button to their site see an uplift in traffic from Facebook. They see lots of Likes appearing on their Like buttons and think the Like button is great. However the number displayed [...]

Posted on May 9, 2011 at 6:52 pm by chris · Permalink · One Comment
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