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Off topic, but I used to run a website that had Google Analytics. This site and domain are now 100% down and have been for over a year. I still get monthly ema

Off topic, but I used to run a website that had Google Analytics. This site and domain are now 100% down and have been for over a year. I still get monthly emails from Google about the analytics for this website. Apparently it's getting 200-300 visitors per month still. I have replied back to Google vie email about this several times but never heard any reply. I wonder what site they are tracking?

TomAnthony 6y ago
It is quite possible to take a GA tracking code for one site and put it on another site. This has happened to me quite a lot where people have lifted content or copied code from my site. You can see the hostnames in GA (you have to dig for it), which could explain this.
TomGullen 6y ago
IIRC the measurement protocol can be used to send fake traffic by bad actors.
infinitelurker 6y ago
Ghost/spam traffic is a real problem for GA. UA codes are public and can be targeted with spam referrals or simply randomly hit (especially for UA codes that end in -1). Filtering spam and getting useful data on GA is a never ending job that Google keeps making harder. (re removal of Service Provider / Network Domain [1]) [1]: https://support.google.com/analytics/thread/27808046?hl=en https://support.google.com/analytics/thread/27808046?hl=en