{"id":324,"date":"2015-01-11T01:07:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T01:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2015-01-18T15:28:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T15:28:01","slug":"google-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Google Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw a link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ditherandbicker.com\/posts\/2015-01-10-rip-google-analytics.html\" target=\"_blank\">interestingly-worded article<\/a> on Reddit suggesting that Google Analytics is no longer a viable service because it is subject to spamming of traffic by Bots.\u00a0Others suggest some ways of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.analyticsedge.com\/2014\/12\/removing-referral-spam-google-analytics\/\" target=\"_blank\">solving these issues<\/a> and clearing up any confusion or misjudgment placed in the first article. I suppose Google could do a bit more to curb these issues but the exclusion list function is good enough for me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw a link to an interestingly-worded article on Reddit suggesting that Google Analytics is no longer a viable service because it is subject to spamming of traffic by Bots.\u00a0Others suggest some ways of solving these issues and clearing up any confusion or misjudgment placed in the first article. I suppose Google could do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-development","category-seo","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}