Block unwanted referral traffic Google analytics

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Howto block unwanted Referral Trafficfrom Google Analytics report
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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 aresome TIPSand TRICKSto 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)
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1. Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders
–(Admin > View Settings)

Difference between Ghost SpamandReferral Spamwith best solution
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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”
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How to blockdarodarforum,semalt &other spamreferrals
2. AdminFilter(Admin> Filter>NewFilter) – Hereyoucan blockanyspecific Domain by campaign source. Itis very
simple techniqueand has 4 simple steps.

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Thistechnique onlyhelpful forspam referralsnotforghostspam. Youcan alsoblock morethanone url.
Usepipe“|”toseparatespam 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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BlockGhostSpamby Hostnamefilter
(include)

www.yourdomain.com
subdomain.yourdomain.com
webcache.googleusercontent.com
translate.googleusercontent.com
www.youtube.com
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List ofallvalidhostnames

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Filter patternforhostnames
.*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.
Hereis 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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Blockundesirable referral trafficthrough.htaccessfile
Rewrite Engine on
RewriteCond %{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 BlockAny
City/Region/Countryin
GoogleAnalytics

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 blockSpamor personal IPAddress inGoogleAnalytics

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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.

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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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