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Matt Chiera

Matt Chiera is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Ice Nine Online, a Chicago-based B2B digital marketing agency he established in 2014. Over more than a decade, he has helped clients generate millions of dollars in revenue across SEO, paid media, web development, and marketing strategy. Before founding Ice Nine Online, Matt served as a Director at Perfect Search Media, one of Chicago's pioneering search marketing firms. He has taught digital marketing courses at the Digital Professional Institute, published Digital Marketers Sound Off (ranked the number one Web Marketing book on Amazon), and holds formal training from the University of Chicago and Stanford University's Technology Entrepreneurship program. Ice Nine Online has earned recognition through the dotCOMM, MUSE, and Web Excellence Awards.

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What is googleadservices.com in Google Analytics?

In Web Analytics by Matt Chiera9 Comments

From time to time an interesting “referral” source in Google Analytics like googleadservices.com bears some investigation. First, googleadservices.com is not spam. If you see referral traffic (and for me, conversions) coming from googleadservices.com, I’d recommend not filtering it out in Google Analytics, at least for the …