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  1. ryandiscord

    The best way to make money online, give me ways!

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    I've spent $26M this year alone on paid ads so far... AMA about paid ads

    Could you elaborate more on how you would determine the personality type by profession?
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    my final weight loss journey?

    Throwing away this metric because it could be inaccurate misses the point completely. You're getting your own relative baseline. It doesn't need to be to the exact calorie, it's more so you have an idea of what and how much your consuming on a day to day so you can make adjustments. That way you...
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    Newbie Question(s) so dumb, you're afraid to even ask!

    That's a good fallback. Try it out, I would be curious to see if that works.
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    Newbie Question(s) so dumb, you're afraid to even ask!

    This might have worked in the past but Google no longer recommends canonical tags for syndicated content as of last year. Probably to prevent link building schemes.
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    my final weight loss journey?

    At you're weight you if you eat around 135g of protein you'd be in good shape (.7g per lb, I forget what the converts to in kg) but still you need to consider calories in / calories out. Get a baseline of calories you're consuming now by tracking it for a week and get your average. Then cut that...
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    Intermittent Noindex Tags

    Have you tried mimicking Googlebot to see what returns? You can set your user agent in a tool like Screaming Frog or with a browser extension. You could also try switching Cloudflare to development mode that will turn off the cache temporarily.
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    Google forcing monthly invoicing, bye bye credit card payments

    Very similar then, probably a slow rollout. We do use a cashback card but ultimately not the end of the world if we have to switch to ACH.
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    Google forcing monthly invoicing, bye bye credit card payments

    I wonder if this is impacting accounts where the ad spend fluctuates a lot or doesn't have enough history. We have been spending close to the the same amount per month with some growth over the years and including some variance for seasonality.
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    Google forcing monthly invoicing, bye bye credit card payments

    Same here. It's first of the month or until the limit.
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    STDDIOT - Stuff That Doesn't Deserve Its Own Thread

    Counter measure idea: run your own bot network on your own sites to increase upstream engagement through chrome/direct or chrome/bing. I'd be leery of sending too much through Google. But wow that's some shit.
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    STDDIOT - Stuff That Doesn't Deserve Its Own Thread

    That's more concentrated than what I'm seeing. Direct and Bing traffic makes sense but only if using Chrome, that way it could send poor UX experiences signals to Google. But from Firefox, I'm not sure how that would work. Or is that Google is looking at Android traffic as well? (I haven't read...
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    STDDIOT - Stuff That Doesn't Deserve Its Own Thread

    Ashburn Virginia caught my attention because I have seen traffic pop up quite a bit in my visitor recordings (Fullstory), more so in the past than I do now. I had just assumed it was some kind of bot. They load a single page scroll down, then back up, then bounce or sometimes just load the...
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    Google Analytics 3 to be deprecated on July 1, 2023 without data migration.

    They probably rushed the interface in GA4 because Universal Analytics wasn't GDPR compliant. Companies using it in Europe were getting sued, some countries were making moves towards banning it (Norway, Italy, Sweden, France, etc...) So rush out the new version that is compliant, let those who...
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    Google Analytics 4 Spam

    The hostnames you shared are similar to what I was seeing, that it's hitting redirected domains. In my case I don't have those alternate domains defined in GA4 so I would think it had to have come across them by actually hitting them and not just pinging my GA4 ID.
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    Google Analytics 4 Spam

    That's why you need to verify your hostname for these visits in GA. If they don't match your domain then you're right, they aren't hitting your site. The tag manager approach only works if they're actually hitting the script somehow. Which I'm not 100% sure they are. Another alternative to get...
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    Google Analytics 4 Spam

    You could use JavaScript to make something similar but it's already there and free. If you want to get deeper into it, look into the datalayer, very handy for passing e-commerce data to other platforms or custom coding
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    Google Analytics 4 Spam

    Hostnames in Google Analytics is referring to what domain the script loaded on. The last big round of ghost referrals spam I recall addressing weren't actually hitting your site and wouldn't get this value correct. So it was easier to filter out by whitelisting your hostname (domain, subdomains...
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    Google Analytics 4 Spam

    I use Supermetrics and that appears to filter out ghost referral spam because I can't get it to pull into my reports however, it's definitely in the Google Analytics interface. I can see it's spoofing hostname but only our domains that exist as redirects (misspellings, .biz, etc...). I don't...
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    Someone registered ".co" version of my domain. Any potential negative consequences?

    Try visiting the site with your user agent set to googlebot. If it no longer redirects to your domain it could be an indicator of some type of spam. Is it possible your registrar threw in the .co as some type of promotion and you actually have it but didn't realize?
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