Self-Referrals in Google Analytics

One of the very useful reports in Google Analytics is the ‘Referring Sites’ report.  This tells you specific sites that have links to your site and are directing traffic to you.  With this info you can strengthen ties with these sites, aim for traffic from similar sites, and otherwise leverage these connections. Common situation that…

Excluding Visitors from Google Analytics via Cookie

Normally when you are setting up Google Analytics (or any other web analytics program for that matter), you want to set it up so that it doesn’t count traffic from visitors using the site on behalf of the site owner. This may include employees of the company that owns the site, web developers or online…