I have a website hosted by an USA company.
I set Portugal as destination country of my site in google webmasters
I am using a social network (like facebook, twitter, etc) to advertise the website only to 2 countries: Brazil and Portugal.
But Google analytics only shows that I get only traffic from USA, Russia and others and NONE from Brazil and Portugal
Can somebody hep me here?
If you are not getting any hits from your Country, not even yours, then you have to check that the tracking code is correctly installed.
The best way to check it is by going to your website through your mobile (without wifi), and check if you see your visit in the real-time reports, if you don't see anything, then there is a problem with the code.
Besides from your tracking code being correctly installed. You must certainly have spam. Check your referral reports and look for unusual traffic, like share-buttons, traffic2cash, there are hundreds of spammers.
To keep clean your data you have to create a filter. You can find instruction on how to create this filter here. https://stackoverflow.com/a/28354319/3197362
Hope it helps,
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I have 2 websites, a marketing(Mar) site and a subscription management(SM) site, recently I have been tasked to implement GA on the SM site.
Initial implementation went fine and sending some custom pageviews worked nicely to help with our single page sign up form.
Traffic from the MAR site gets dropped directly into our subscribe process when someone clicks buy and we have multiple sites on the domain separated by country, url's end like /uk/car, /fr/motorcycle, etc
I was expecting to see these urls in the Source section of GA but I see a very large proportion of the traffic sources as (direct)/(none) 87% in fact and no entries at all for any of the MAR site urls.
I have checked the referer in the headers manually and can see that the URL is infact correct when you land in the SM site.
The only thing I can think of is that the MAR site, also has a tracker in my SM site so that they can see our subscribe process in their stats and that maybe GA is considering them to be the same site.
They are hosted in completely different servers.
I would love some help on this, I am very new to GA myself as are my colleagues.
So a problem has arisen on my site when I placed the google analytics script on each of the pages, as when I log into google analytics its gives me incorrect data.
I know this because only 4 people have been given access (from London) to the site and in google analytics under "New Users" we have people from USA, Thailand, and other countries. Any ideas as to why we are recieving incorrect data from google analytics?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I doubt the numbers are incorrect. Is the login page for the site exposed to the world? If so, I suspect the majority of the unknown visits are people who hit the login page but don't actually login.
You should also check the Hostnames report to verify the code is coming from the expected website. We've seen instances where a development shop copies GA code from one site to another and forgets to change the UA number.
We are running a website(due to security reason cannot disclose the name until we find this solution) and we keep on getting referral link on our analytic account(see image) why would aliexpress and other sites would ask visitors to visit our website, is our application compromised so they are using our website? or this is Chinese being Chinese
This is clearly referrer spam and doesn't correspond to any traffic to your Web site. The spammers basically send fake pageviews directly to Google Analytics (using randomly chosen property IDs) and their aim is to trick you into following the referrer URLs. Some time ago I wrote an article that explains this in depth and that discusses different approaches to eliminate that referrer spam from Google Analytics:
http://veithen.github.io/2015/01/21/referrer-spam.html
I have an ASP.Net website.
The website is purely for customers in the UK, although some of our suppliers may originate in the USA/Canada.
We get a lot of visitors from Africa, China, Russia etc, who quite frankly, we know are up to no good.
I thought of the possibility of detecting the originating country and redirecting to a 'safe page' for blacklisted countries.
I wondered whether this is actually achievable (do to data being available) and if so what mechanism (from a code perspective) would I use in Asp.Net.
You can use IPInfoDB API to achieve this. For more information and full tutorial visit
http://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/Find-Visitors-Geographic-Location-using-IP-Address-in-ASPNet.aspx
I would like to create a paypal developer account for myself, however it seems that the developer account registration only accepts US addresses.
What should I do?
Use a fake US address. You don't need to attach any bank accounts or credit cards to a developer account, so this is a harmless way of getting around Paypal's stupid and arbitrary new developer rules.
Indeed, I couldn't find a way around this either, being a UK developer, so had to put a US address in.... I used http://www.fakenamegenerator.com to get a 'valid' telephone number and zip code to get the form to work.
PayPal really seem to miss the point if you are outside the US, despite the same page promoting that you can use the service in over 190 markets and 25 currencies...