Of these websites check the referral traffic. Of their accounts, they visit the referring sites (darodar, econom, iloveitaly, eventracking) which usually redirect to sites like amazon. Aliexpress, etc. And which create different affiliate cookies. Thus charging a commission for each of. The purchases that we make. From now on on these e-commerce portals.
They also use these techniques to promote themselves or advertise
many blogs talked about blocking referrer spam only through .htaccess . This, as we have seen before, is useless, since these spams do not visit our website, but instead attack our analytics ua.
The next solution that emerged was to create filters , day after day, to block all these visits from at least one of our google analytics views .
We could even filter by isp or provider
Other methods have also been published, such as filtering by host . The problem with this system is that we cannot indicate only our host as poland phone number library valid, since there are third-party services that we are also interested in counting, such as the translation service (translate.googleusercontent.com) or even the use of its cache.
If spammers wanted to continue attacking our statistics, they would simply creating an online store have to make a to be able to continue injecting code and avoid our filter by impersonating, for example, google translate.
The solution to these false visits in google analytics
To do this, we are going to carry be numbers out 4 simple steps:
1) first, we are going to create a new view in the manager of our analytics account. It is always advisable to leave a view without filters, to save all the information as a backup.