Google Analytics Referral Spambot List
As you’ve probably seen in your Google Analytics referrals list there’s an ever increasing number of sites seemingly sending real people your way. Sadly this is not the case, they’re robots/crawlers sent to promote those sites so you then visit them, crafty but very annoying!!! Probably the most famous of these bogus referrals is semalt.com.
**LAST UPDATED FEBRUARY 2016**
There are now over 25 GA filters required to remove the 400+ spam referral domains!!! Going forward we suggest you use this amazing spam filter tool from Simo Ahava. It does all the hard work for you (yay!). Further to this if you’d like to take a clean look at your historical data then use this segment template or chat to us at Lone Goat and we’ll do it for you.
If you know of any more shysters please share them with us on twitter.
Keep an eye on this post on the official GA Google+ page too.
Thanks to everyone for your continued support and workarounds. Hopefully one day Google will do something about it.
Together we can crush them all!
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