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Can you elaborate as to what sort of spam you are referring to? Do you mean bots viewing your pages? Or is it something else?
by pedalpete 10y ago
Can you elaborate as to what sort of spam you are referring to? Do you mean bots viewing your pages? Or is it something else?
- gressquel 10y agoHe is probably talking about the infamous "vitaly referrer spam". It shows up on the referrer tab of GA dashboard with a really long domain like "merry.christmas.go.to.this.link.to.get.a.price.vitaly.com".
- whatever_dude 10y agoReferral spam. Pretty common nowadays. Plenty of articles talking about it and showing how to filter it. https://moz.com/blog/how-to-stop-spam-bots-from-ruining-your-analytics-referral-data https://moz.com/blog/how-to-stop-spam-bots-from-ruining-your...
- bartread 10y agoAs others have said, referer (sic) spam. Bots often show up in your logs but not Google Analytics if they don't execute JS.