Google stops sending referral data – the end of keyword research?
Back in mid October 2011 Google announced that they will stop sending referral data for searches originating from their secure SSL domain – https://www.google.com. Here is their original announcement @...
View ArticleHow much the lack of Google referral data affects you?
This is a quick follow up to my earlier post on Google stopping sending referral data for logged in users and users of Google’s SSL host at https://www.google.com/. There have been various values for...
View ArticleParse Apache logs for traces of server abuse
End of a month is a perfect time to look at a Web site’s logs – many servers are setup to archive and file away the logs at the end of the month and some servers don’t even keep more than the current...
View ArticlecPanel log file woes
cPanel log rotator fills up the server HDD with useless junk files One of cPanel-based servers (cPanel/WHM 11.30.5.2) I administer has thrown a tantrum tonight. A cPanel log rotator has stuck (in fact,...
View ArticleFederated Media is spamming referrer logs now
Disable Federated Media spambot using CSF or other firewall softwareWell, what do you know: the big guys in the blogging business are not averse to stooping this low! I’m checking referrer logs on all...
View ArticleDeleting a Web property in Google Analytics
Every once in a while you come across a task that you assume is so simple and straightforward but somehow there does not seem to be a way to do it. Deleting a Web property from your Google Analytics...
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