: Trouble with Analytics SPAM and GTM let me show you my problem: I Installed Analytics by GTM with UA tag My Website is an Wordpress based Started tracking access Then, in JetPack plugin statistics,

@Turnbaugh106

Adf.ly is an affiliate marketing network, not spammers, to my knowledge. I wouldn't block that traffic if I were you.

It sounds like you were overly aggressive with the traffic you blocked, without doing much research into the topic.

Read this: www.analyticsedge.com/2014/12/removing-referral-spam-google-analytics/
I have .htaccess rules that send crawlers from spam referers back to the domains they came from.

For ghost referers, they never hit your site so you have to have a hostname filter (described in the article above). Since ghost referers ping Google's servers directly, no other analytics software shows them.

I'd rather have unfiltered data full of spam (that I could manually remove) than have incorrectly filtered data that shows 3 visitors when I have 20 times that much.

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@Shelley277

WP Ban is a good start. I would also apply some filters in your Google Analytics account.

Moz has a great article that talks about all available options to get rid of referrer spam.

Also, if you want to look at your old data without spam you can create a segment that filters it out.

Google has done a pretty terrible job at filtering out referrer spam and there seems to be no resolution to this issue at this time.

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