Simon Stafferton works on technical SEO, analytics and direct-booking conversion for student accommodation and build-to-rent operators. 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z https://simonstafferton.com/ Simon Stafferton 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z https://simonstafferton.com/and-in-the-beginning-there-was/ <blockquote> <p><strong>Migration note:</strong> the body of this post still needs pasting in from the WordPress export. Title, date, URL and excerpt are correct.</p> </blockquote> <p>The start of my journey — unlocking my writing from private emails into online publications, to provide more value to the wider community.</p> 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z https://simonstafferton.com/google-analytics-channel-groupings/ <blockquote> <p><strong>Migration note:</strong> the body of this post still needs pasting in from the WordPress export. Title and URL are correct; check the date against the export.</p> </blockquote> <p>If you are looking into customising or editing the default channel groupings in Google Analytics, you are now in the right place. I have done this dozens of times and have pulled together the resources that helped, along with my own understanding.</p> 2021-03-12T00:00:00Z https://simonstafferton.com/the-speed-of-spam/ <blockquote> <p><strong>Migration note:</strong> the body of this post still needs pasting in from the WordPress export. Title, date, URL and excerpt are correct.</p> </blockquote> <p>So this site is not that new, but only recently have I started putting a bit more energy into it, adding content and making it work better and faster. This morning I added a new contact form to the Contact page — a form that had never existed before.</p> <p>It took literally seven minutes from saving the page for me to receive the first spam submission. Seven minutes.</p>