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Nicola Russell

Feb 15th 2019

Digital Analytics Insights

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It’s time to check your Google Analytics for Amazon Bot Spam

UPDATE: As of 4th February 2020, the 'Network Domain' and 'Service Provider' dimensions in Google Analytics have been marked as 'no longer supported' and are returning (not set) values -...

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Michael Wilson

Jan 31st 2019

Digital Analytics Insights

2 min read

When to Update Your Referral Exclusion List in Google Analytics?

One of the most common issues that we come across happens when an e-commerce website has a payment portal that temporarily redirects the user to a third-party site to process...

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Conor Ross

Jan 25th 2019

Google Optimize

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Stop & Edit | Latest Features from Google Optimize

Google Optimize is Google’s tool for user experience testing, complete with Analytics and Ads integration, and Data Studio connectors expected in the future. As well as testing on your site,...

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Conor Ross

Jan 18th 2019

Digital Marketing Insights

4 min read

A Beginner’s Guide to Bing Webmaster Tools

While Google remains the undisputed leader of search engines, you shouldn’t be ignoring other offerings when it comes to ensuring your site ranks as highly as possible. According to the...

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Michael Wilson

Jan 8th 2019

Digital Analytics Insights

3 min read

Calculated Fields in Google Data Studio – How to Use Text Functions

Have you ever set up a report in Google Data Studio and realised your data isn’t as clean as you’d like it to be? Maybe you’ve used inconsistent naming conventions...

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Conor Ross

Dec 9th 2018

Digital Analytics Insights

4 min read

Getting The Most From Google Optimize

You’ve hopefully heard of Google Optimize by now, Google’s integrated tool for User Experience testing. There is more to Google Optimize than simply creating and running tests however, and we’re...

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Michael Wilson

Jul 12th 2018

Digital Analytics Insights

2 min read

What is FBCLID? How To Remove FBCLID parameter from Google Analytics

You might have noticed recently a new parameter has appeared in your Google Analytics reports.  Your nice clean URL structure has been taken over by this 'fbclid' parameter and its...

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Michael Wilson

May 24th 2018

Google Tag Manager

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Tracking Youtube Videos via GTM in 2018 (Using New Built-In Youtube Trigger)

It used to be a lot more difficult tracking embedded Youtube video plays using Google Tag Manager.  You either had to write your own custom script to listen for the...

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Joanne Kearney

Nov 8th 2017

Digital Marketing Insights

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Most Expensive Google AdWords Keywords in Ireland

Last week we came across an article on Search Engine Journal which was looking at the 25 most expensive AdWords keywords which got us thinking; what are the most expensive...

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