{"id":1212,"date":"2016-11-22T06:52:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/en\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2016-11-22T06:52:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:52:27","slug":"how-to-remove-referrer-spam-in-google-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/how-to-remove-referrer-spam-in-google-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove referrer spam in Google Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have suffered from spam bots which appeared in Google Analytics. They are called \"Referrer Spams\" which distort the Google Analytics statistics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1213\" src=\"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Referrer-Spam.png\" alt=\"referrer-spam\" width=\"351\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Referrer-Spam.png 351w, https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Referrer-Spam-300x38.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For example, <span class=\"codeformatting\" style =\"padding: 2px 4px; font-size: .95em; color: #c7254e; background-color: #f9f2f4; border-radius: 4px;\">site-auditor.online<\/span> appears as a referral on Google Analytics. But the bounce rate of this spam referrer is 100%.<\/p>\n<p>Especially, many referrer spams such as\u00a0biteg.xyz, boltalko.xyz, brateg.xyz and even\u00a0Secret.\u0262oogle.com (which is different from\u00a0Secret.google.com or\u00a0Secret.Google.com) attacked my site. I could see one of such spams every day on my Analytics Dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to take every step which could be searched in google but I could not prevent them from appearing on the Google Analytics Reports.<\/p>\n<p>I could remove them from Google Analytics with a filter to exclude\u00a0a region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1214\" src=\"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Remove-Referrer-Spam.png\" alt=\"Remove referrer spams in Google Analytics\" width=\"646\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Remove-Referrer-Spam.png 646w, https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Remove-Referrer-Spam-295x300.png 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As shown above, please go to <strong>Admin &gt; All Filters<\/strong>. And then click on \"<strong>ADD FILTER<\/strong>\" to create a new pattern.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Filter Type: Custom<\/li>\n<li>Select Exclude<\/li>\n<li>Filter Filed: Country, Region or City<\/li>\n<li>Filter Pattern: Samara Oblast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also added \"Russia\" (as a Country) and \"Saint Petersburg\" (as a City). Now annoying spam referrals will not appear in your Google Analytics Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have suffered from spam bots which appeared in Google Analytics. They are called \"Referrer Spams\" which distort the Google Analytics statistics. For example, appears as a referral on Google ... <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"How to remove referrer spam in Google Analytics\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/how-to-remove-referrer-spam-in-google-analytics\/#more-1212\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to remove referrer spam in Google Analytics\">\ub354 \uc77d\uae30<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[500,502,503,501,340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwordpower.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}