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www.thesempost.com/google-analytics-referral-spam-removed/ http://howidoseo.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/ghost-referral-spam-is-gone.html
www.bigredseo.com/google-analytics-traffic-drop-feb-2016-dont-panic-yet/

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February 2016 and early March were quiet months for spam in Google Analytics.

In mid-March, 2016, rankchecker.online began annoying may websites. In mid-June, it morphed into site-auditor.online.

In late May, monetizationking.net started up, and recently (October) morphed into 24x7-server-support.site.

In the last week of April, first week of May, there was a flurry of fake direct visits to non-existent landing pages, fake organic search keywords, fake Twitter and Facebook referrals.

There have been a couple of hundred other spam sources, mostly of smaller volume and short duration.

Complete information about the spam problem and current filter expressions are available here: help.analyticsedge.com/spam-filter/definitive-guide-to-removing-google-analytics-spam/

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