Timeline for How to block direct traffic spam in Google Analytics?
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| Jul 20, 2017 at 20:46 | comment | added | NDLF | Thank you very much Carlos the link you gave me helped! As for the htaccess... this bot is using over 700 different IPs and many Browser version, many Operative system and Browser size. A total mess. I consider this question fully answered. Thank you very much for your help. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 20:02 | comment | added | Carlos Escalera Alonso | As I mentioned in the note I added later. If these bots are using a lot of your resources, you should block them from your server. The same patterns you find in your Analytics(plus others like IPs) can be used in your htaccess (or similar config files) to block temporarily or permanently these visits. Changes on server files are quite sensitive, so always make a backup. If you manage to block them from your server, then you only need the Segment in Analytics to clean your historical data. The filter won't be needed | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 19:32 | comment | added | NDLF | Thank you. This will help for the analytics. But is there a way to stop this to affect the site directly as I am concerned for the google ranking of my site and the bandwidth it is using (80GB last month)? | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 18:07 | history | edited | Carlos Escalera Alonso | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 20, 2017 at 17:45 | history | answered | Carlos Escalera Alonso | CC BY-SA 3.0 |