Block unwanted referral traffic Google analytics

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How to block unwanted Referral Traffic from Google Analytics report




We have been getting emails and messages on social media regarding unwanted and un-relevant traffic

from spam sites, and it is spoiling the Google Analytics report of various small business owners and SEO

folks such as mentioned by this guy in Google Groups.


Here are some TIPS and TRICKS to get rid of unwanted referral traffic.

Google Analytics provides a facility to filter the

bots “bot filtering” where you can block no-

human referral traffic. It has two steps.

– Go to “admin”

– Click on “view settings”

– Check the box of bot filtering (as shown below)


1. Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders – (Admin > View Settings)


Difference between Ghost Spam and Referral Spam with best solution


Ghost spam is directly hit your Google Analytics (GA) and Referral

spam hit your website for getting fake visits and promotions. Check

image for more detail.

You can stop these spamming referrals at some extent from

here. Some sites cannot be stopped by GA Bot Filtering, you

will have to try another options as well.


– Go to “admin” part

– Click on “filters” (see it in the image 2)

– Create “new filter”


How to block darodar forum, semalt & other spam referrals2. Admin Filter (Admin > Filter > New Filter) – Here you can block

any specific Domain by campaign source. It is very simple technique and has 4 simple steps.


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This technique only helpful for spam referrals not for ghost

spam. You can also block more than one url.

Use pipe “|” to separate spam url (without space).

(Create New Filter > Filter Name > Filter Type > Filter Field > Filter Pattern)

Be careful while putting url because wrong url will not help blocking or any filtering.


– If you are getting unhuman traffic from “events, (net-set)

data, organic” also that means Ghost Spam

– This technique is the best technique, suggested by all

analytics experts

– Use all valid hostnames and add them in hostnames filter

– include

– Check how to find valid hostnames, follow the image on

the right side



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Block Ghost Spam by Hostname filter (include)


www.yourdomain.com

subdomain.yourdomain.com

webcache.googleusercontent.com

translate.googleusercontent.com

www.youtube.com


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List of all valid hostnames




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Filter pattern for hostnames.*yourdomain.com|.*youtube.com|.*googleusercontent.com (no space)

First you have to use hostname filter than use campaign source filter if you still getting traffic from spamming referral

sites.

Here is the small list of major spam sites atl4i3util01.web.web.com

forum.topic38699690.darodar.com

semalt.semalt.com

Sadly

blackhatworth.com

buttons-for-website.com

make-money-online.7makemoneyonline.com


You can not only block spam websites from Google Analytics but also from your business website. It is best technique and I will recommend this technique. You can block non human traffic through .Htaccess file easily by fixing simple code. Check code in the image.


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Block undesirable referral traffic through .htaccess file

Rewrite Engine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*ilovevitaly\.com/ [NC,OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*ilovevitaly.\.ru/ [NC,OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*ilovevitaly\.org/ [NC,OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*ilovevitaly\.info/ [NC,OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*iloveitaly\.ru/ [NC,OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*econom\.co/ [NC,OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*savetubevideo\.com/ [NC,OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*kambasoft\.com/ [NC,OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*buttons\-for\-website\.com/ [NC,OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*semalt\.com/ [NC,OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*darodar\.com/ [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [F,L]Source – moz.com


Mostly spamming visits come from Russia

especially from Samara so you can block

these unhuman traffics. Follow given

steps…

Login with Google Analytics account

Go to in Admin section

Then click on Filters

And then add New filter and follow the given

steps in image



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How to Block Any City/Region/Country in Google Analytics


Visits from Personal system or from personal office area is worthless so you can block

it easily by Filters Just Follow images and block Spam referral IP or unwanted IP



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How to block Spam or personal IP Address in Google Analytics




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Bonus: Filter takes 24 hours to work properly. Click on “verify filter” to save your time. You can take maximum 255 characters in filter pattern and also add more than one ghost spam by using pipe “|” separator.



Cgcolors is a web design, development and SEO based company with office at New York. We are here to help small business and share the knowledge with

outstanding SEO folks.

We hope that these tricks will help you to create correct Google Analytics report with actual traffic coming to your site instead of wrong traffic prediction due to unwanted referral by different bots.

If above tricks aren’t working for you or having any trouble removing unwanted referral traffic, please send us a message on any social media Facebook, Twitter or Google+. We’ll help you out.


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