Tag: GoogleAnalyticsSpam

: What causes traffic from India to a set of URLs with a common path and a strange search term on a new Google Analytics setup? I added Google Analytics to my site a few weeks ago, and since

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: Google Analytics listing hundreds of pages that are not from my site lately i'm getting very strange pageviews in my GA report. On the tracked domain i have only 4 pages active. Instead of

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: Why does Google Analytics report a spammer as the "GuzzleHTTP" user agent? I got my GA account spammed, somehow google recognizes it as Guzzle client. However I tried to search through my access

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: Google Analytics include hostnames beyond character limit In an effort to prevent ghost spam, I am trying to filter traffic by hostname in Google Analytics. I have found several hostnames that

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: Is someone doing negative SEO for my website? We are getting too many clicks and links from some junk websites, most of the websites are expired domain when we try to visit it. We have got

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: How do you stop Google Analytics ghost referrals that use the right hostname? After experiencing a huge spike in traffic, I suspected ghost referrals. So, similar to this recommendation (Google

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: How to Remove Spam Links to Wordpress Site My hacked WP site has been scanned and cleansed. However, the site is still getting a high volume of requests to non-existent pages on my domain

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: Create Exclude Filter on Google Analytics for Network Domain New to Google Analytics.... I am trying to create a filter on my Google Analytics account, for incoming traffic, with the "Network

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: Suspicious Web Traffic from reddit.com I'm getting too much traffic from redit.. but from the same location "RUSYA" and the language shows "Secret.ɢoogle.com You are invited! Enter only with this

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: Google Analytics — character limit on Filter Pattern field It took me a while but I finally found out how to use filters to block spam from my analytics. I currently have the following filter

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: Strange Google Analytics referrals from legitimate government/bank sites (not spam sites) I have been ignoring a strange problem on my Google Analytics reports for ages - there are strange legitimate

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: Why create a fake duplicate / clone website? Here is my problem... Someone created an exact copy of my website, including my Analytics and Adsense codes and started sending traffic to this fake

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: How to prevent random referrals to my website in Google Analytics? When I look at my Google Analytics dashboard, I see most referrals from a website called rank-checker.online which highly skews

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: What to do against It all started early this year. Day-to-Day my Google Analytics of a swiss-website (german language) showed me more and more visitors — mainly from the US and France. First,

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: Google analytics referrals from strange sites My google analytics page shows a few referrals from adtiger.tk getrichquick.ml I'm not a "ProWebmaster" - just administering a small site hosted by

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: Google Analytics: How to remove unwanted entries It's been a couple of days and I am seeing entries like this on GA. How can I avoid such entries beside analytics_test?

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: How to exclude Bots from Google Analytics (sudden rise of them in the last weeks) Since a few weeks, one of my Google Analytics Accounts shows a continued rise of Visitors and Pageimpressions

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: Why isn't Google Analytics bot filtering turned on by default ? Is there some downside to it? My sites, like everyone’s nowadays gets allot of referral spam, usually I just ignore it, but

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: Remove spam referals from Google Analytics organic traffic report I've got some referral spam showing up in my Google Analytics organic traffic. Usually I just ignore it but because it's showing

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: Causes of Referrer Spam in Google Analytics? I'm trying to determine what could cause an influx of referrer spam traffic in Google Analytics. My company launched a website in September. Since

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: Block spam from Google Analytics Measurement Protocol for Mobile Application I'm not sure if this is quite the right place to post this, but it seemed the most appropriate! I'm using Google

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: How to Create a Google Analytics Filter for Multiple Browsers I would like to filter traffic from multiple browsers from a specific view in Google Analytics. Specifically looking to remove; Explorer

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: Unable to Filter Ghost Referrals in Google Analytics I set up a view level filter to remove ghost referral spam where the filter field ie Campaign Source and Filter Pattern is something like

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: Can organic traffic be spoofed in Google Analytics the same way as 'Refer spam' Ive recently seen a large spike in organic traffic to a website in Google Analytics, to diagnose the spike ive

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: .htaccess Solution to Referral Spam not working Getting hit up with a new referral spam site (site valuation dot org) this morning and I've put my usual .htaccess fix in place: RewriteEngine

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: How to remove Google Analytics refferal traffic with unknown hostname using Google Tag Manager? I'm trying to remove ghost referral traffic in Google Analytics by excluding unknown hostnames coming

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: Diagnosing spike in 'direct traffic' in google analytics Recently ive seen a spike in the direct traffic in google analytics its up between 100-200% depending on what day you look at since last

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: Is there a way to get rid of Google Analytics event tracking spam? I'm using event-tracking via the GA-collector (https://ssl.google-analytics.com/collect) to see the usage of an API. When checking

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: Why does Google Analytics report that I have traffic at a calculator.php URL for my blog? I frequently see this URL having traffic via Google Analytics although I don't have any page and with

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: Google Analytics is showing visits unrelated to my domain I recently set up a professional portfolio website on my own domain. After a few weeks of Google Analytics, I was surprised and even

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: I'm getting weird traffic from flipboard.com - is it referral spam? Here's the screenshot: I have looked through several "referral spam" websites lists, but I didn't find flipboard.com on any

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: What is the status of Google's action on "Ghost Referrals" in Google Analytics? I got this in Google Analytics: A significant portion of referral traffic to property example.com is from

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: Block social-buttons.com / simple-share-buttons.com Referral Spam How to remove social-buttons.com / simple-share-buttons.com this type of lots of Referral Spam link they increase 100% bounce rate

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: Interpreting Full Referrer in Google Analytics I pay for advertising through google adwords, and I'm watching to ensure I'm not paying for fake clicks. (I'm new at this). I have setup Google

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: What is forum20.smailik.org referral traffic? In my Google Analytics real-time I now see a lot of visitors with referrer forum20.smailik.org This link redirects to http://www.aliexpress.com/ What does

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: How to fight off Google Analytics referrer spammers? Last months I have lots of referrer spammers in my GA statistics. Their count is ~10x higher than count of legit visitors (my site is not

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: How does Google prevent GA accounts from being spammed Since the Google Analytics snippet is available in the source code of the page (e.g. below is stackexchange's) <script type="text/javascript">var

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Tag: GoogleAnalyticsSpam

: What causes traffic from India to a set of URLs with a common path and a strange search term on a new Google Analytics setup? I added Google Analytics to my site a few weeks ago, and since

: Google Analytics listing hundreds of pages that are not from my site lately i'm getting very strange pageviews in my GA report. On the tracked domain i have only 4 pages active. Instead of

: Why does Google Analytics report a spammer as the "GuzzleHTTP" user agent? I got my GA account spammed, somehow google recognizes it as Guzzle client. However I tried to search through my access

: Google Analytics include hostnames beyond character limit In an effort to prevent ghost spam, I am trying to filter traffic by hostname in Google Analytics. I have found several hostnames that

: Is someone doing negative SEO for my website? We are getting too many clicks and links from some junk websites, most of the websites are expired domain when we try to visit it. We have got

: How do you stop Google Analytics ghost referrals that use the right hostname? After experiencing a huge spike in traffic, I suspected ghost referrals. So, similar to this recommendation (Google

: How to Remove Spam Links to Wordpress Site My hacked WP site has been scanned and cleansed. However, the site is still getting a high volume of requests to non-existent pages on my domain

: Create Exclude Filter on Google Analytics for Network Domain New to Google Analytics.... I am trying to create a filter on my Google Analytics account, for incoming traffic, with the "Network

: Suspicious Web Traffic from reddit.com I'm getting too much traffic from redit.. but from the same location "RUSYA" and the language shows "Secret.ɢoogle.com You are invited! Enter only with this

: Google Analytics — character limit on Filter Pattern field It took me a while but I finally found out how to use filters to block spam from my analytics. I currently have the following filter

: Strange Google Analytics referrals from legitimate government/bank sites (not spam sites) I have been ignoring a strange problem on my Google Analytics reports for ages - there are strange legitimate

: Why create a fake duplicate / clone website? Here is my problem... Someone created an exact copy of my website, including my Analytics and Adsense codes and started sending traffic to this fake

: How to prevent random referrals to my website in Google Analytics? When I look at my Google Analytics dashboard, I see most referrals from a website called rank-checker.online which highly skews

: What to do against It all started early this year. Day-to-Day my Google Analytics of a swiss-website (german language) showed me more and more visitors — mainly from the US and France. First,

: Google analytics referrals from strange sites My google analytics page shows a few referrals from adtiger.tk getrichquick.ml I'm not a "ProWebmaster" - just administering a small site hosted by

: Google Analytics: How to remove unwanted entries It's been a couple of days and I am seeing entries like this on GA. How can I avoid such entries beside analytics_test?

: How to exclude Bots from Google Analytics (sudden rise of them in the last weeks) Since a few weeks, one of my Google Analytics Accounts shows a continued rise of Visitors and Pageimpressions

: Why isn't Google Analytics bot filtering turned on by default ? Is there some downside to it? My sites, like everyone’s nowadays gets allot of referral spam, usually I just ignore it, but

: Remove spam referals from Google Analytics organic traffic report I've got some referral spam showing up in my Google Analytics organic traffic. Usually I just ignore it but because it's showing

: Causes of Referrer Spam in Google Analytics? I'm trying to determine what could cause an influx of referrer spam traffic in Google Analytics. My company launched a website in September. Since

: Block spam from Google Analytics Measurement Protocol for Mobile Application I'm not sure if this is quite the right place to post this, but it seemed the most appropriate! I'm using Google

: How to Create a Google Analytics Filter for Multiple Browsers I would like to filter traffic from multiple browsers from a specific view in Google Analytics. Specifically looking to remove; Explorer

: Unable to Filter Ghost Referrals in Google Analytics I set up a view level filter to remove ghost referral spam where the filter field ie Campaign Source and Filter Pattern is something like

: Can organic traffic be spoofed in Google Analytics the same way as 'Refer spam' Ive recently seen a large spike in organic traffic to a website in Google Analytics, to diagnose the spike ive

: .htaccess Solution to Referral Spam not working Getting hit up with a new referral spam site (site valuation dot org) this morning and I've put my usual .htaccess fix in place: RewriteEngine

: How to remove Google Analytics refferal traffic with unknown hostname using Google Tag Manager? I'm trying to remove ghost referral traffic in Google Analytics by excluding unknown hostnames coming

: Diagnosing spike in 'direct traffic' in google analytics Recently ive seen a spike in the direct traffic in google analytics its up between 100-200% depending on what day you look at since last

: Is there a way to get rid of Google Analytics event tracking spam? I'm using event-tracking via the GA-collector (https://ssl.google-analytics.com/collect) to see the usage of an API. When checking

: Why does Google Analytics report that I have traffic at a calculator.php URL for my blog? I frequently see this URL having traffic via Google Analytics although I don't have any page and with

: Google Analytics is showing visits unrelated to my domain I recently set up a professional portfolio website on my own domain. After a few weeks of Google Analytics, I was surprised and even

: I'm getting weird traffic from flipboard.com - is it referral spam? Here's the screenshot: I have looked through several "referral spam" websites lists, but I didn't find flipboard.com on any

: What is the status of Google's action on "Ghost Referrals" in Google Analytics? I got this in Google Analytics: A significant portion of referral traffic to property example.com is from

: Block social-buttons.com / simple-share-buttons.com Referral Spam How to remove social-buttons.com / simple-share-buttons.com this type of lots of Referral Spam link they increase 100% bounce rate

: Interpreting Full Referrer in Google Analytics I pay for advertising through google adwords, and I'm watching to ensure I'm not paying for fake clicks. (I'm new at this). I have setup Google

: What is forum20.smailik.org referral traffic? In my Google Analytics real-time I now see a lot of visitors with referrer forum20.smailik.org This link redirects to http://www.aliexpress.com/ What does

: How to fight off Google Analytics referrer spammers? Last months I have lots of referrer spammers in my GA statistics. Their count is ~10x higher than count of legit visitors (my site is not

: How does Google prevent GA accounts from being spammed Since the Google Analytics snippet is available in the source code of the page (e.g. below is stackexchange's) <script type="text/javascript">var

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