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Canonical URLs – Why You Should Care

Your site may have a page that can be reached through more than one URL variation – with and without WT.mc_id for example. This can cause search engine spiders to record more than one URL for that page, and that’s a bad thing. You can prevent the marker parameters (such as WT.mc_id) from being recorded by spiders, by using canonical link-tags.

April 21, 2009   9 Comments

Cool custom measure column: PPC, email, banner visit counts

Add a column to your WebTrends reports that gives the number of visits coming from pay-per-click or campaigns.

March 21, 2009   13 Comments

Cool custom report: Bounce

How to create WebTrends custom reports that show bounce activity for search terms, entry pages, campaigns, referrers.

February 12, 2009   28 Comments

Cool Custom Report: Campaign latency, pt 1

Campaign attribution, campaign latency, residual effects, latent conversions, indirect campaign effects, post-campaign effects. Whatever you want to call it, here are some WebTrends solutions for it. Part one of several.

February 3, 2009   3 Comments

Adding Windows 7 to the Platforms report

Windows 7 is here, sort of. You can add it to your reports through the automatic .ini file updater or manually. Here’s how.

January 29, 2009   No Comments