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Google Announces Increased Security Notifications

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Google announces increased security notifications

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This week, Google announced the addition of more security notifications. The increased warnings will be delivered through the company’s Google Analytics platform [Figure 1]. The notification system aims to alert webmasters of about hacks and other security issues. A hacked site is one that is in violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.

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Figure 1 Image Credit: © Google 2016

The press release from Google states:

“Our research has shown that direct contact with website owners increases the likelihood of remediation to over 75%.“

In 2015, Google launched Safe Browsing alerts in Google Analytics. Safe Browsing notifications warn users about other compromised websites. A compromised site is one that is being used, intentionally or not, to launch malware or phishing attacks.

Last September, Google saw a 180% increase in sites getting hacked for spam compared to the previous year

The new Security Issues feature alerts web property (website) owners when there is suspicious activity on a website. To get notifications from Google about security problems, users should add all of their websites to their Google Analytics accounts. Websites should also be verified in your Google Search Console account (formerly Google Webmaster Tools).
Google offers resources to help resolve security issues. To check for security issues, or to add a web property to your Search Console account

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How to Set Up a Google Analytics Custom Dashboard

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How to Set Up a Google Analytics Dashboard

Do you need a better view of your best website types and ecommerce website strategy data? Custom dashboards in Google Analytics may be the answer to your needs. Learn how set up a private dashboard to organize views of your website traffic in Google Analytics.

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A Google Analytics Dashboard is a collection of widgets – tables, charts, and graphs – that show an overview of reports and metrics you choose. A custom dashboard lets you monitor many metrics in one area of your Google Analytics account. However, setting up a dashboard from scratch could be a bit of a hassle. Here is a quick guide on creating a custom dashboard in your Google Analytics account. This assumes you already have Google Analytics tracking installed on your website.

Many Google Analytics users have contributed dashboards they have created into a gallery. You can set-up your own dashboard, or import one of the preset dashboards.

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How to set up a Google Analytics Dashboard

  1. To create a Dashboard, log into Google Analytics
  2. Navigate to the account you want to add a dashboard to
  3. Select the Dashboards tab
  4. Expand the Dashboards tab
  5. Click +New Dashboard
  6. In the Create Dashboard dialog [Figure 1], select either Blank Canvas (no widgets) or Starter Dashboard (default set of widgets), or import a pre-set dashboard from the gallery
  7. Name your new dashboard a descriptive title
  8. Click Create Dashboard

That’s it! That’s how to how to set up a Google Analytics dashboard. To make it easier, here is a metrony YouTube video custom dashboard on how to how to set up a Google Analytics custom dashboard

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