Category: Tools
15 Best Social Media Tools for Small Business
Small businesses don’t have the luxury of having an entire department to manage their social media. From social media advertising, research, planning, design, content, and reporting, it can take up a lot of your time.
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How We Use Slack to Beat Down Referral Spammers
Our referral spammer solution was built around a simple messaging software we already use every day. Learn how we used some simple scripts to turn Slack into our command center.
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New “Keyword Referral Spam” Plaguing Your Analytics Reports
New referral spam attacks are being generated every day. Here’s the field report on the newest one to hit—and be removed from—our Analytics.
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A New Mutation Of Referral Spam You Will Love to Hate
Now that we’ve tackled faked visits, the ghost spammers have stepped up their game with new tactics that target pages...that don’t even exist. Learn about this new tactic, and what to do about it in our latest entry.
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Exploiting Referrer Spam as a Marketing Tool
Follow us on a journey from the dark beginnings of referral spam to the modern analytical wasteland we’ve found ourselves in today. We’ll put you in the mind of the spammer, and reveal what drove them to attack what we held dear.
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Referral Spam Solved: Give Your Analytics an Enema
We’ve built a Google Analytics segment. A custom segment, which weeds out referral/ghost/bot spam. The way it works is: every time one of the sites that uses this segment, gets hit by a potentially bad referrer, we check out the referrer to see if bad, and either white or blacklist referring site. The result being, a blacklist that gets updated hourly. When applied it will quickly and instantly cleans historical and future spam.
Learn about how we did it, and download your free Google Analytics cleansing segment.
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