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How and Why you Need to Deal with the Referral Ghosts in your Analytics

Tuesday, 27 October 2015 by Paul O'Brien

If you’re like me and diligent in your use of Google Analytics (here’s how by the way), you may have noticed some odd referring sources creeping in to your data. In honor of my favorite holiday sneeking up on us, let’s talk about ghosts. Ghost Traffic & Ghost Referral Spam Ever the mission of the

Identifying Comment Spam with Google

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 by Paul O'Brien

I was torn on how to title this post; this is either Further proof of the depths to which Google’s bot will go to crawl your content or An alternative to Akismet Have I lost you? Let me start from the beginning. I have an unhealthy interest in comment spam. It sits in a different

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Google Please Work on the Blog Search Algorithm!

Wednesday, 17 June 2009 by Paul O'Brien

One aspect of the regular search algorithm that seems of increasing importance to blog search is authority; page rank, or what ever you want to call it. Simply, ensuring that blog search fosters the inherent premise of a blog by promoting real bloggers. I LOVE blog search. I can’t stress enough how much I prefer

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