aargh, how do I get rid of this, 16 "users" referral spam? I`ve read up and there seems to be no agreement on how to handle these. What are you guys doing?
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Peter Stokes: aargh, how do I get rid of this, 16 "users" referral spam? I've read up and there seems to be no agreement on how to handle these. What are you guys doing?
Suraj Gadage: +Peter Stokes ;I usually block this spam traffic using GA filters. Use “Exclusion Filters” to eliminate this traffic from your reports which can be found in the Admin -> Account -> Filters section of Google Analytics. To block one of these sites, you’d create an exclude filter.
However, blocking out all of the spam sites individually is a daunting task. Every day, new spam sites are being created and manually adding these filters are like an endless game of whack-a-mole.
In order to combat this spam for good, Marketers have created a tool called the GA Spam Fighter. They maintain an up-to-the-day list of all of the known spam sites that have been plaguing Google Analytics. They have created a one-click solution to add filters to a GA profile that will block the entire list of sites at the same time. ;
Hope this helps!
Peter Stokes: +Suraj Gadage many thanks for this info, will be setting these up tomorrow. thats really going to help.
aargh, how do I get rid of this, 16 "users" referral spam? I`ve read up and there seems to be no agreement on how to handle these. What are you guys doing?
