I am wondering if is possible to exclude '(not set)' records from the host-name field? All guides suggests to include the known hosts but with this approach a lot of them can be missed (ex. 'hidemyass.com', 'webcache.googleusercontent.com', etc..). Any idea how to implement this filter? Bellow option does not seems to work:
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I currently manage quite a few Google Analytics accounts for different websites and am trying to work out how to remove certain Anayltics spam from these accounts. I have previously added filters like excluding Russia visitors as the businesses are local UK based but I am now getting a lot of traffic from:
Language - not set
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Page - sharebutton.to
If i was to exlucde the above would that get rid of any actual visitors as well as spam or will it get rid of 100% spam?
If someone could help with this that would be brilliant.
Many Thanks
Paul
Filters based on countries or the name of the spam are not efficient because both can be easily changed by the spammers.
Also, it isn't possible to filter the (not set) entries in Analytics, this label is added after the visit is recorded when Analytics doesn't find a value for that dimension.
Instead what you should use
One hostname filter, this will help prevent the majority of the spam, whether it shows as referral, page, language, etc. and independently of the name used by the spammer.
A source filter for the sneaky crawlers which are far less frequent.
Here you will find detailed instructions on how to create the hostname filter and other measures you can take to prevent fake traffic.
I am implementing cross domain tracking for a client. We will be using Universal Analytics with Google Tag Manager.
Let's say the client has three domains: example.com, example.de and example.se. We would like to have a master account that tracks everything, but we would also like to be able to drill down and see a single domains stats. Perhaps this already exists without any customization but I have been unable to find anything on how though.
What I can see there are two ways to go about:
Create a filter that automatically appends the domain to the tracked data. So instead of /about in my view, I would get example.com/about and example.se/about. But how would this work with event tracking? Is it possible to get a report the way the client want's?
Use custom variables and dimensions. This way I could set up a variable for Domain and send in before tracking the data. But will it be sufficient to get the reports wanted?
Appreciate any help.
Thank you,
Bjorn
Hostname ist already tracked, you can set it as second dimension to break down pageviews etc. by domain (works with events, too). However that is really cumbersome and most people follow the route you have outlined in Point 1. (Google suggest that themselves in their filter documentation) - however you'd still need hostname set as second dimension to break down by domain in the events report (or you create custom reports filtered by hostname for events for each domain).
Or you create segments based on hostname (since you can compare up to for segments that would allow you to compare the overall performance and domain performance).
Plus of course you can create additional views filtered by hostname and add the domain name only in the rollup-profile for all domains.
So there are several ways to do this somehow okay-ish, but nothing really better than the solutions you already came up with yourself.
I am trying to do some analysis in Google Analytics and discovered that there is a particular bot that is sending a ton of 'fake' traffic to my site. I'd like to exclude this traffic from the analysis. It comes from a certain source (the same one every time) and is always on 1 of 4 Service Providers. I have isolated the traffic with the following segment:
INCLUDE "Service Provider" Matches RegExp "W|X|Y|Z"
AND
INCLUDE "Source" Matches RegExp "nameOfSource.com"
^^That returns the exact traffic I would like to exclude. So one would assume that when I set the INCLUDEs to EXCLUDEs it would give me what I need (everything except that segment). Instead, it excludes all traffic from nameOfSource.com.
Does anyone have an idea of how I could successfully exclude that traffic, without removing the legitimate traffic from nameOfSource.com as well?
Thanks in Advanced!
Google Analytics has filters for this purpose.
First of all create another profile so you have 2 profiles an unfiltered profile with all your data and create a a second profile and on that profile add the filters you want.
You can find this under the admin section in your GA account.
AND statements in Advanced Segment are not cumulative but they are not cumulative but they run one after the other.
You can do it with Advanced filter.
on field A extract "nameOfSource.com" from source
on field B extract "W|X|Y|Z" from ISP
output A+B to a custom var
Then you can use a second filter to exclude trafic with this custom var, or use an Advanced segment on it.
In my google analytics account it is showing data from my local testing server. I've also got a fairly popular tutorial/demonstration on my site, that people copy the whole source code and put on there site without removing my google tracking code. So i'm getting info about their traffic.
I've had a look through the settings and couldn't find anything relevant. Is there some sort of filter I can apply to show more accurate results.
Thanks,
Paul
You can use an include filter.
Filter type: custom -> include
Filter field: Hostname
Filter pattern: yourdomain\.com
Case sensitive: no
Note that you can have multiple excludes filters but only one include filter per profile.
And, you should always create a different profile for filters. Keep a separate raw profile with no filters.
I'm trying to create a filter on a Google Analytics profile. I'd like it to include only traffic that has come as a result of searching for a specific search term.
For example, imagine I'm interested only in people who have arrived at my site having searched for the word 'dog'. I don't care about any other visitors, so I want all my reports to be filtered for people who have searched for 'dog' to get to the site.
I have tried this a few ways, but I'm not convinced they're working. My latest attempt was the following:
Edit filter
Filter type: Include
Filter field: Referral
Filter pattern: (\?|&)(q|p)=.dog.([^&]*)
Case sensitive: no
At the moment, this appears to be letting through traffic that has not come from a search engine. It would be great if someone could explain what I need to do to get it to work correctly!
Many thanks,
Katie
[P.S. I realise this may sound like a strange request, but it's partly to help me learn a bit more about filters]
Add another Include filter where medium=organic
You could also do it using Advanced Segments instead of requiring to setup a new profile for each keyword :-)