Topic:
HubSpot,
Sales Tips
(4 Minute Read)
If you are using HubSpot COS as your web platform, then you almost certainly have some erroneous sessions being tracked in Google Analytics.
If you are following standard practice for GA hygiene, you'll have already filtered your business' IP addresses (and any other static IP addresses used by employees or suppliers) from diluting your data. However, this may not be enough. When you use HubSpot to edit or preview website pages, landing pages or blog posts, your visits are (currently) still being counted in GA (probably).
When you use the edit or preview modes in the HubSpot COS, HubSpot sends a bot on your behalf to fetch the page. Effectively, this means you are visiting the site via a proxy. This means the IP of the visit is from HubSpot's servers - NOT your IP address, which is the one you have filtered.
Easy peasy. Create a new filter in Google Analytics.
This should prevent visits from HubSpot being included in your data.
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Ste likes to mess about with the techie side of SEO. As such his blogs are mainly about SEO or rants about bad web development practice.
