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Create a segment for historical data

Create a segment for historical data - Google Analytics Tutorial

From the course: Google Analytics: Spam Proofing

Create a segment for historical data

- [Instructor] If you've had your site for a while you'll likely have experienced a bit of spam in your analytics. Even if you add these filters to your site right now those only work moving forward. They don't retroactively change anything in your data, so if you want to look at your historical data without the spam in it, we'll have to use segments. Now I have one of my reports open, and over here you'll see All Users. I can click segment over here on the right, and then click New Segment. I'll go ahead and give it a name. Now I can start filtering some things out. Let's scroll down to Conditions. I'll change Include to Exclude, and then let's click on this little button here, Add Content, and change that to language. And we're going to go ahead and use our regular expression. Now I have all the tabs up here with our different expressions. I'll copy this one from the language one. Now we're going to click on Or. That will allow us to add extra conditions. I'll change this to Source.…

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