Two Shopify Theme Edits to Improve Your Tracking

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

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

Get Bunk Referrer Semalt OUT of Your GA Stats

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…

Tracking Non-Page Activity With Google Analytics (updated 3x)

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…