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• Looking for a Sales Development Representative (Jobs at Piwik)

  20 mai 2015, par Piwik Core Team — Jobs

  This blog post is a job offer at Piwik PRO for a Sales Development Representative. Please share this job ad if you know anyone who may be interested.

  Job description

  As a sales development rep your job will be to work with our sales team to identify and nurture sales opportunities. You will be one of the initial building blocks of our US operation, especially as we begin to scale it, so there will be plenty of opportunities for advancement within the company.

  Responsibilities

  • Generate new sales opportunities
  • Help to develop and improve sales strategies
  • Set up discussions with senior executives and evaluate their business needs
  • Manage and nurture a pipeline of prospects until a given stage
  • Use marketing & sales CRM tools

  Requirements

  • Desire to learn and succeed in sales
  • 1+ years of related experience
  • Advanced research skills
  • Ability to write professional emails
  • Native English proficiency with excellent verbal communication skills
  • Passion for technology

  Compensation

  Salary (full-time) + performance-based incentives

  Location

  Remote

  About Piwik PRO

  At Piwik and Piwik PRO we develop the leading open source web analytics platform, used by over 1.1M websites worldwide and is currently ranked the 7th most used web analytics tool in the world. Our vision is to build the best open alternative to Google Universal Analytics.

  The Piwik platform collects, stores and processes a lot of information: hundreds of millions of data points each month. We create intuitive, simple and beautiful reports that delight our users.

  Apply online

  To apply for this position, please Apply online here. We look forward to receiving your applications!

• Looking for a Sales Development Representative (Jobs at Piwik)

  20 mai 2015, par Piwik Core Team — Jobs

  This blog post is a job offer at Piwik PRO for a Sales Development Representative. Please share this job ad if you know anyone who may be interested.

  Job description

  As a sales development rep your job will be to work with our sales team to identify and nurture sales opportunities. You will be one of the initial building blocks of our US operation, especially as we begin to scale it, so there will be plenty of opportunities for advancement within the company.

  Responsibilities

  • Generate new sales opportunities
  • Help to develop and improve sales strategies
  • Set up discussions with senior executives and evaluate their business needs
  • Manage and nurture a pipeline of prospects until a given stage
  • Use marketing & sales CRM tools

  Requirements

  • Desire to learn and succeed in sales
  • 1+ years of related experience
  • Advanced research skills
  • Ability to write professional emails
  • Native English proficiency with excellent verbal communication skills
  • Passion for technology

  Compensation

  Salary (full-time) + performance-based incentives

  Location

  Remote

  About Piwik PRO

  At Piwik and Piwik PRO we develop the leading open source web analytics platform, used by over 1.1M websites worldwide and is currently ranked the 7th most used web analytics tool in the world. Our vision is to build the best open alternative to Google Universal Analytics.

  The Piwik platform collects, stores and processes a lot of information: hundreds of millions of data points each month. We create intuitive, simple and beautiful reports that delight our users.

  Apply online

  To apply for this position, please Apply online here. We look forward to receiving your applications!

• Stopping Referrer Spam

  13 mai 2015, par Piwik Core Team — Community

  In this blog post we explain what is Referrer spam, this new kind of spam that has recently appeared on the Internet. We also provide solutions to stop it and preserve the quality of your analytics data.

  What is Referrer Spam?

  Referrer spam (also known as log spam or referrer bombing) is a kind of spamming aimed at web analytics tools. A spammer bot makes repeated web site requests using a fake referrer URL to the site the spammer wishes to advertise.

  Here is an example of referrer spam in action:

  

  Half of those referrers are spams, here are some well know spammers that you may have seen in your logs: buttons-for-you-website.com, best-seo-offer.com, semalt.com…

  The benefit for spammers is that their website will appear in analytics tools like Piwik or Google Analytics:

  • public analytics reports (or logs) will be indexed by search engines: links to the spammer’s website will improve its ranking
  • curious webmasters are likely to visit their referrers, thus bringing traffic to the spammer’s website

  How to deal with Referrer Spam?

  Referrer spam is still new and analytics tools are all handling it differently.

  Referrer Spam in Piwik

  At Piwik we started working on mitigating Referrer spam more than a year ago. If you use Piwik and keep it up to date, you do not need to do anything.

  Referrer spammers are automatically excluded from your reports to keep your data clean and useful.

  New spammers are continuously detected and added to Piwik’s blacklist on each update. If you find a new spammer in your analytics data, you can even report it so that it is added to the Piwik’s open referrer blacklist and blocked for everyone.

  Referrer Spam in Google Analytics

  Google Analytics doesn’t offer any spam protection by default. It can however be configured manually using a custom Filter.

  To create a filter in Google Analytics go to the Admin section and click on All Filters. Create a new custom filter that excludes based on the Campaign Source field. In the Filter pattern enter the spammers domains you want to exclude (this is a regular expression):

  

  If new spammers arise you will need to update this list. You can also use Piwik’s referrer blacklist to exclude all the spammers currently detected.

  Other Analytics Tools

  Many web analytics tools do not yet handle Referrer spam and when using these tools, you will often find a lot of spam data in your Referrer Websites analytics reports.

  If you use an analytics tool that does not exclude Referrer spam, we recommend to contact the vendor and ask them to implement a mechanism to remove these referrer spammers. As of today many analytics vendors still have not mitigated this issue.

  Public List of Referrer Spammers

  At Piwik with the help of our large community we have decided to tackle this growing spam issue. We have created a list of up to date referrer spammers that anyone can edit.

  The list is available in a simple text file on Github: github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist.

  The list is released under the Public Domain and anyone can use it within their applications to exclude referrer spammers.

  Many people have already contributed new spammers to the list. We invite you to use the list in your apps and websites and help us keep the list up to date!

  Let’s unite and fight the spammers together.

  Happy Analytics!

• Stopping Referrer Spam

  13 mai 2015, par Piwik Core Team — Community

  In this blog post we explain what is Referrer spam, this new kind of spam that has recently appeared on the Internet. We also provide solutions to stop it and preserve the quality of your analytics data.

  What is Referrer Spam?

  Referrer spam (also known as log spam or referrer bombing) is a kind of spamming aimed at web analytics tools. A spammer bot makes repeated web site requests using a fake referrer URL to the site the spammer wishes to advertise.

  Here is an example of referrer spam in action:

  

  Half of those referrers are spams, here are some well know spammers that you may have seen in your logs: buttons-for-you-website.com, best-seo-offer.com, semalt.com…

  The benefit for spammers is that their website will appear in analytics tools like Piwik or Google Analytics:

  • public analytics reports (or logs) will be indexed by search engines: links to the spammer’s website will improve its ranking
  • curious webmasters are likely to visit their referrers, thus bringing traffic to the spammer’s website

  How to deal with Referrer Spam?

  Referrer spam is still new and analytics tools are all handling it differently.

  Referrer Spam in Piwik

  At Piwik we started working on mitigating Referrer spam more than a year ago. If you use Piwik and keep it up to date, you do not need to do anything.

  Referrer spammers are automatically excluded from your reports to keep your data clean and useful.

  New spammers are continuously detected and added to Piwik’s blacklist on each update. If you find a new spammer in your analytics data, you can even report it so that it is added to the Piwik’s open referrer blacklist and blocked for everyone.

  Referrer Spam in Google Analytics

  Google Analytics doesn’t offer any spam protection by default. It can however be configured manually using a custom Filter.

  To create a filter in Google Analytics go to the Admin section and click on All Filters. Create a new custom filter that excludes based on the Campaign Source field. In the Filter pattern enter the spammers domains you want to exclude (this is a regular expression):

  

  If new spammers arise you will need to update this list. You can also use Piwik’s referrer blacklist to exclude all the spammers currently detected.

  Other Analytics Tools

  Many web analytics tools do not yet handle Referrer spam and when using these tools, you will often find a lot of spam data in your Referrer Websites analytics reports.

  If you use an analytics tool that does not exclude Referrer spam, we recommend to contact the vendor and ask them to implement a mechanism to remove these referrer spammers. As of today many analytics vendors still have not mitigated this issue.

  Public List of Referrer Spammers

  At Piwik with the help of our large community we have decided to tackle this growing spam issue. We have created a list of up to date referrer spammers that anyone can edit.

  The list is available in a simple text file on Github: github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist.

  The list is released under the Public Domain and anyone can use it within their applications to exclude referrer spammers.

  Many people have already contributed new spammers to the list. We invite you to use the list in your apps and websites and help us keep the list up to date!

  Let’s unite and fight the spammers together.

  Happy Analytics!

• Announcement of a new Translation platform for Piwik translators : Transifex

  21 avril 2015, par Piwik Core Team

  To our dear Translators community,

  Thank you for helping us to translate Piwik into one of the many languages Piwik is available in.

  In this blog post, we are happy to announce a new and better way for you to contribute translations to Piwik.

  From today onwards, all the translations for the Piwik platform, plugins and for the Piwik Mobile app are managed in the public Piwik Transifex project.

  As part of a community request, we decided to switch to a more modern translation tool in order to provide everyone with an easier and better way to contribute to translations. Transifex provides us with a powerful and flexible online translation platform.

  It’s easy to contribute to Piwik translations: sign up to our Transifex project at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/piwik/ to get started.

  If you have any questions, feel free to come back to us.

  Happy translating!