Comments on: Remove Spam from Google Analytics Reports to Improve Accuracy

By: Peter Stavrou

Peter Stavrou — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 03:30:56 +0000

In reply to tayyab.

There is a new way of removing referral spam using Google Tag Manager.
You use it to drop a cookie and only count the users who have cookies on your analytics.
This works because with software they are unable to accept a cookie but real users do.

Unfortunately I have not written a tutorial on this yet but I will definitely get around to it soon.
In the meantime you can probably find out how to do it with a Google search.

By: tayyab

tayyab — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:23:33 +0000

I read you article, its worth to read, excellent way of talking. Thumbs up
but my problem is little bit different, i am getting spam traffic on my wordpress site. and its shown in direct traffic. when i go to Acquisition > All traffi> secondry dimention> hostname = it shows only my site name is on all host names. and when i click on direct traffic on GA there are no source or and source mediam. just a direct traffic.
i used all the plugins and tools for WordPress. but failed.
can you please suggest what should i do

By: Peter Stavrou

Peter Stavrou — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 03:12:09 +0000

In reply to Joseph Sebastian. My pleasure Joseph! :)

By: Joseph Sebastian

Joseph Sebastian — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 17:37:22 +0000

Excellent article for removing spam, very helpful.

Thanks again Peter 🙂