How to block unwanted referral traffic from Google Analytics Report

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How to block unwanted Referral Traffic from
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.
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Here are some TIPS and TRICKS to get rid of
unwanted referral traffic.
1. Exclude all hits from known
bots and spiders
(Admin gt View Settings)
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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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.
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How to block darodar forum, semalt  other spam
referrals
2. Admin Filter (Admin gt Filter gt New Filter) 
Here you can block any specific Domain by
campaign source. It is very simple technique and
has 4 simple steps.
Go to admin part Click on filters (see it
in the image 2) Create new filter
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(Create New Filter gt Filter Name gt Filter Type gt
Filter Field gt Filter Pattern) Be careful while
putting url because wrong url will not help
blocking or any filtering.
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).
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Block Ghost Spam by Hostname filter (include)
 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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List of all valid hostnames
www.yourdomain.comsubdomain.yourdomain.comwebcac
he.googleusercontent.comtranslate.googleuserconte
nt.comwww.youtube.com
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Filter pattern for hostnames .yourdomain.com.yo
utube.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.topic3869969
0.darodar.com semalt.semalt.com Sadly blackhatwort
h.com buttons-for-website.com make-money-online.7m
akemoneyonline.com
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Block undesirable referral traffic through
.htaccess file
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.
Rewrite Engine onRewriteCond HTTP_REFERER
http//.ilovevitaly\.com/ NC,ORRewriteCond
HTTP_REFERER http//.ilovevitaly.\.ru/
NC,ORRewriteCond HTTP_REFERER
http//.ilovevitaly\.org/ NC,ORRewriteCond
HTTP_REFERER http//.ilovevitaly\.info/
NC,ORRewriteCond HTTP_REFERER
http//.iloveitaly\.ru/ NC,ORRewriteCond
HTTP_REFERER http//.econom\.co/
NC,ORRewriteCond HTTP_REFERER
http//.savetubevideo\.com/ NC,ORRewriteCond
HTTP_REFERER http//.kambasoft\.com/
NC,ORRewriteCond HTTP_REFERER
http//.buttons\-for\-website\.com/
NC,ORRewriteCond HTTP_REFERER
http//.semalt\.com/ NC,ORRewriteCond
HTTP_REFERER http//.darodar\.com/
NCRewriteRule (.) F,LSource moz.com
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How to Block Any City/Region/Country in Google
Analytics
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 Th
en click on Filters And then add New filter and
follow the given steps in image
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How to block Spam or personal IP Address 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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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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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 arent working
for you or having any trouble removing unwanted
referral traffic, please send us a message on any
social media Facebook, Twitter or Google. Well
help you out.
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based company with office at New York.  We are
here to help small business and share the
knowledge with outstanding SEO folks.
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