Get Bunk Referrer Semalt OUT of Your GA Stats
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I help several small & local businesses get their web tools up and running, and few things are more disappointing than when garbage like “semalt” shows up in the results. Semalt claims to be an SEO and Analytics tool, but word around the web suggests they are, at best, a cause of referral spam. Referral…

Friendly Reminder: Keep Your Plugins Clean
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  If you have plugins you aren’t using, or have gotten rid of or replaced, it’s always a good idea to go through and straight up delete them. You can always re-download if you discover you need one in the future. Why? Because it’s less code you have to maintain through updates, and it helps you avoid…

Tracking Non-Page Activity With Google Analytics (updated 3x)
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First, let’s define what “non-page activity” means: non-page activity is any action that happens on your website that isn’t a page load or page view. That includes: button clicks that don’t lead to a new page, media player uses, and file downloads. Google Analytics, and any other javascript-based site tracking tool, can’t track the activity…

Two Shopify Theme Edits to Improve Your Tracking
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So, you’ve gone and gotten yourself a Shopify store. Congratulations! They’re an excellent platform that helps people build successful online stores. (And I’m not just saying that because I wrote for them before!) But there’s two things it doesn’t do out of the box: Give you a unique URL to track new account creations. Give…

More Referrer Spam Remover Resources
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http://www.analyticsedge.com/2014/12/removing-referral-spam-google-analytics/ A more comprehensive and highly detailed article, similar to the basic Semalt removal guide I wrote a lil while back. Highly recommended if you think you have crap in your Analytics referrer stats.

Social Media Tools, or: Queuing Posts Is Your Friend
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When running a project that involves getting other people to do things on a regular basis, it’s important to communicate clearly, and often. There is a lot that goes into that, but let’s get started with the basic tool kit being used to run Earth Is Huge. In order to keep up with posting duties,…

Well this looks useful!
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http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/ Plugin that looks like it works similarly to my favorite tool from ManageWP – the Clone tool. ManageWP’s Clone tool is most excellent for moving staged versions of sites to live environments. I’ll have to give this a spin and see if it performs similarly!