Ever since Google decided to hide keyword data using secure searches, SEOs have been struggling to get the same insight that used to be so readily available in Google Analytics. While we’ll probably never have the level of insight we had with the exact keyword data straight from the source, we do have a few…
Category: Google Analytics
Associate Google Analytics and WMT for Simplified Insights and Reporting
Google Analytics (GA) and Google Webmaster Tools (WMT) provide a wealth of information about website usage by visitors and the Googlebot respectively. When used individually, account holders can see key visitor metrics using GA and uncover issues that may be negatively impacting website health in WMT. While using each of these products individually is great, combining them…
How to Identify and Filter Bad Referrals in Your Google Analytics Data
If you are a site owner or marketer you have most likely seen a few odd referrals in your acquisition reports recently from websites that don’t seem to add up. Some of the biggest offenders you may have noticed are buttons-for-website.com and variations of makemoneyonline.com. What Are These Referrals? These sites are not actual referrals;…
Top Hall Blog Posts of 2014
Another year has come and gone and to say that this was a big one for Hall would be a bit of an understatement. To list just a few of our highlights from 2014, we launched an award winning open source WordPress framework, became 100 percent Google Analytics certified, took home our fourth Best Places…