Analytics question again.help please
So I saw this correct, to eliminate spam and crawlers bots giving me false readings on Analytics, I only require my own domain name to be in the newly created hostname filter ?
Thereby only genuine searching folks will be recorded, have I got this right because right now I have zero hits and I am concerned I have shut out everyone! Unless I genuinely have no hits, which is worrying to say the least.
I have only had this filter running for a day though, perhaps I need to give it more time.
But I had to stop secret.google.com vote for Trump and o-0-8-0-0.com spam hitting me up, the only thing was though that site domain for both of thes didn't appear in the list, it was under 'not set', so I eliminated all of that too.
Would one of you experts please reassure me that this is correct what I have done regarding the filtering?
Have a great Monday
Craig
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Run this program .. I run it every 2 days or so .. and it filters out all the bots.. or most of them anyway
Keep your analytics open .. and open this link in a new window,,, its all automatic!
https://referrerspamblocker.com
Thanks Chris, but should i revert my analytics to where it was before adding the filter. Its the filter i am worried about as far as it might not be now recording true hits
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Hi Craig, I had the same problem recently and it was because I was using the Yoast SEO plug in and once I deactivated it it was ok. Xx