Author
Patrick Rauland
Released
6/8/2017
When spam clogs up your Google Analytics results, it can prevent you from getting real insights into your website's visitors. In this focused, practical course, learn how to clean up spam from your analytics and get clean, accurate metrics on your site by creating filters, blocking bots, and excluding crawlers. Patrick Rauland helps you understand spam in Google Analytics, showing how to identify spam and write filters to eliminate it. He also walks through how to exclude known bots and language spam, create a hostname filter, save an annotation, and create a segment to view your historical data without any spam.
Topics include:
- Understanding spam in Google Analytics
- What spam looks like
- Spam proofing your analytics
- Excluding known bots, language spam, and crawler spam
- Saving an annotation
- Creating a segment for historical data
Skill Level Intermediate
29m 22s
Duration
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- [Patrick] Google Analytics is the go-to analytics platform for the web, but the data only makes sense if it's accurate. Hi, I'm Patrick Rauland, and in this course we're going to cover how to identify spam, how to write filters to eliminate it, and how to use segments to view your historical data without any spam in it. So let's clean up your stats.
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Introduction
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Welcome22s
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1. Understanding Spam in Google Analytics
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What spam looks like5m 33s
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Understand filters1m 27s
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Create a backup view2m 7s
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2. Spam Proofing Your Analytics
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Exclude known bots1m 50s
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Exclude language spam4m 13s
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Exclude crawler spam2m 35s
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Create a hostname filter4m 8s
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Save an annotation2m 1s
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Conclusion
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Next steps26s
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