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Year: 2015

How to Fight the Google Analytics Referral Spam Issue

Referral spam occurs when your website gets traffic from unusual Bot and suspicious referrals and this traffic is recorded in Google Analytics, invalidating the account data (for example, increasing the number of total visits). These data must be deleted from Google…

How to Remove Referral Spam from your Google Analytics data using Advanced Segments

A common proposed solution to prevent referral spam infecting your Google Analytics data is to create a filter. The only issue with this method is that it will start filtering the spam referrers from the moment you setup the filter, but it will…

How to Link Google AdWords, Analytics and Webmaster Tools

Why do this? It allows for the sharing of data between Google AdWords, Google Analytics & Google Webmaster Tools Allows Google AdWords Data to be viewed and integrated with Google Analytics Allows Certain Webmaster Tools Keyword and Impression Data to…

Custom Campaign Tagging in Google Analytics

Why use Custom Campaign Tags? If used correctly you will be able to calculate CPA (Cost-per-Acquisition) and ROMI (Return-on-Marketing-Investment) and put some very powerful insights in the effectiveness of the channels you are using… Purpose of tagging is to standardise…

Social Mobile Local – Integrating Mobile and Social Media Marketing

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The New Consumer-Centric Branding Paradigm

By Eamonn O Raghallaigh Branding has undergone a number of evolutionary steps in the last hundred years; from its initial state as a statement of quality and authenticity in product-based branding, to the communication of concepts and ideas in the…

Writing Digital Marketing Content – Engaging a new type of Audience

General Considerations when Writing for the Web Writing for the web has evolved into a distinct style when compared to traditional media, such as books, magazines and newspapers. According to Nielsen, users behave and read differently online, with only 16%…

Security Issues in E-Commerce – Part 2

by Eamonn O’Raghallaigh …continues from Part 1. Technical Attacks Technical attacks are one of the most challenging types of security compromise an e-commerce provider must face. Perpetrators of technical attacks, and in particular Denial-of-Service attacks, typically target sites or services…

How to Run Successful Facebook Campaigns – Engagement versus Likes

Finding new ways to retain consumer love… In the ‘like economy’ UCD Smurfit Seminar Series – Hubert Grealish by Eamonn O Raghallaigh Hubert Grealish, a skilled international media and communication specialist and former global head of brand communications with Diageo…