Google Analytics showing two versions of your Blogger posts?

Google Analytics showing two versions of your Blogger posts?
David Kutcher has a simple fix.

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Originally shared by David Kutcher

Fixing the Blogger mobile bug in your Google Analytics that creates two URLs for each blog post in your blog

If you're like many people on Blogger and you use Google Analytics, you've probably noticed when your blog articles show up as two URLs, looking like
http://www.confluentforms.com/2012/11/using-blogger-create-gorgeous-websites.html
vs.
http://www.confluentforms.com/2012/11/using-blogger-create-gorgeous-websites.html?m=1

Frustrating, as it makes seeing traffic to a specific page two different entries that need to be combined, and extraneous as you can already see mobile vs desktop in Analytics without needing that url separation.

But with the addition of just ONE CHARACTER in your Google Analytics settings you can remove this annoyance and improve your metrics.

In Analytics, go to Admin -> View Settings, and then in the section that says "exclude URL query parameters", type in "m" (shown in the image) and hit Save.

That's it. Just m.

Putting that in there removes the extraneous m=1 parameter from the URLs coming in, cleaning up your metrics!

This unfortunately will not fix your older data, but moving forward, nice and clean reports.

Enjoy!