I wanted to share this step-by-step tutorial because it really helped me out in getting rid of ghost and crawler spam from my website.
At first, I thought I had a lot of visitors coming to my website until I discovered they were mostly coming from Referrals that weren't even legit. I didn’t recognize any of these websites nor did I really understand what Referrals was and so I began to do some research.
In my research efforts I found that most of the spam comes through the Referrals section in Google Analytics and so I decided that I wanted to banish it from my website once and for all! :)
Join the Discussion
Reply
Aliee
Premium
Hi, yes my site had lots of "referral spam" on it so I wanted to find a way to get rid of it. The website I found seemed to be the best and easiest one to help me do this.
If you've never applied any filters for the spam then yes, I think that's normal. I'm glad I could help! :)
If you've never applied any filters for the spam then yes, I think that's normal. I'm glad I could help! :)
GolfSpecialt
Premium
Thanks Aliee, this was very helpful as a newbie here. One quick question? My tracking numbers look like this UA-#########-# do I just enter this exactly as it appears in the REGEX string separated by a |?
Aliee
Premium
Hi, sorry to get back to you so late. I've taken another hiatus and hope to be back to work here soon! The tracking number that you're talking about with the UA at the front doesn't seem to be a spam name to enter into a REGEX string. This tracking number is something else and is not what is supposed to be entered so I suggest that you don't enter that tracking number. Feel free to send me a private message if you need more info. on this.
Aliee
Premium
electrobot
Premium
I just roughly guage my traffic based on comments, site feedback, and email I receive. Also, I do a google search regularly to see how my posts and pages appear. I've just had way to many problems with GA. Also, studying the stats has never helped me to increase my site traffic or produce more quality content. Just my thoughts and opinions on the matter. Thanks for your informative and instructive training. :)
Aliee
Premium
Ok, makes sense. I mainly wanted to do this for my website because I didn't want it to interfere with getting a good ranking in google. I didn't want to have mostly spam as traffic to my site and then google think that my site was spam too, especially when you're a new site and want to make a good impression. It just makes me feel better to know that I can control it to a certain extent. Take care :)
