How To Remove Ugly URL Parameters from Google Analytics Reports + MORE

Is Google Analytics cluttering up your reports with 100′s or thousands of unique pages that don’t really exist?
The problem is created by ugly URL’s.  You know what I mean when I say ugly URL’s?
Here’s an ugly one:
http://www.crazyegg.com/welcome?txn=222050&tl=30
What makes it ugly is the ?txn=222050&tl=30
These are parameters that are appended to the URL of a very important page on the Crazy Egg website — the Welcome Page…

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the Web. From Marketing Land: Vine Adds Video Embedding, Expands Social Sharing Even though there’ve already been some clever brand uses of Vine, the reality is that…

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I was talking to a friend recently, about his Apple MacBook. It looks really scruffy. The lid has scuff marks all over it. It’s old and he admits that it hasn’t been very well looked after.
I asked him why he was still using it. He replied, ‘I use it because it has worked perfectly for almost 6 years’…

We will take a break today from bringing you the news on Internet marketing. Our well received new feature ‘The Beal Deal‘ interview series will be back tomorrow as Andy continues to interview the best and brightest of the online marketing world.
In the meantime, here is a video with some Good News for anyone who wants to hear it on this Good Friday…

Digital Now Accounts for 57% of Daily Media Consumption
Consumers now spend more time each day consuming digital than traditional media, according to the most recent GlobalWebIndex. Overall, consumers now spend an average of 10.7 hours a day with all forms of media and 5.6 hours of that on digital…

Welcome to the latest episode of Explore Marketing Uncensored, Social Media Explorer’s official podcast. Explore Marketing Uncensored is your one-way ticket into the twisted minds of some of the greatest digital marketing and social media thought leaders around. The goal: to provide marketing executives with the knowledge they need to be rock stars in their organization…

So, I’ve had a stressful couple of weeks, and we’ve entered the eye twitching stage of stress. It feels kind of like this:But it probably doesn’t look like I’m trying to wink badly … right? Guys?Anyway. Today marks the last weekday in March, which means it’s time to review our top 10 blog posts of the month…

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Marketing podcast with Dan Martell
Have you ever wanted to seek out and find very specific advice for a really big thing you’re wrestling with? Or maybe for just that little thing that needs a specific experience or skill?
Dan Martell – founder and CEO of Clarity.fmIf you’re in business I’m guessing you have that thought several times a day…

We’ve got quite a large following on social media and we share and respond a ton throughout our audiences on different social mediums. We’re a small team, just a handful of folks, but I think we do a great job of helping our readers throughout the day and responding in a timely manner to them…

A couple days ago, our friends over at Marketing Pilgrim published a great blog post from Square 2 Marketing’s President and Co-Founder Michael Lieberman called “10 Ways Inbound Marketing Drives Results This Month.”

I was impressed with the content, but more importantly, I thought the angle was spot on — one of the pain points many marketers and business owners share with me is that it’s scary to adopt a new methodology when it might not yield immediate results…