There is a lot of resources here and on the web explaining how to avoid biaised statistics coming from referals such as Darobar, semalt, iloveitaly, etc. and how to block these malicious bots.
My question is not about how to prevent it to happen. I don't understand WHY i'm getting spammed. What is the interrest of these companies / entities to flood my stats ? They must have a pretty big infrastructure (either servers or infected slave computers) to visit so much websites and so many times. But what is the purpose of all of this ? Is it financial ? malicious ? Just for fun ?
What are the risk for myself or my company ? Can I be disqualified by Adsense or another online advertising program ?
Those bots don't generate ad traffic, even if they do, google and ad companies detect them, I used to work in adserving. Again google, yahoo and major ad serving systems take precautions to prevent fake traffic etc.
Those bots basically searches for things like email adresses, contact information in short any kind of information. Dont forget google uses bots to crawl internet which they have google search engine.
Some bots place comments on higher ranking sites for SEO work.
This is just a big business.
if you want to avoid them, take a loot at here : http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/prevent.html
However, these are just standarts and some folks dont care about them. But then i wouldnt really worry that much.
Spammers are trying to get traffic to their sites. Very often curious webmasters visit "referring" websites, and spammers can show them advertising, or redirect them to sites like amazon.com or alibaba.com to put affiliate cookie (and get revenue in case their targets buy something later).
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Pls apologize if I'm not clear enough, i'll try to be as concise as possible.
I'm working on a a company that created it's own competitors, each has it own website, all share the same GA through GTM. Cross-domain tracking is implemented and working.
I want to know if users do actually visit these different sites, which is very likely because there is a lot of research before buying what this company offers.
I understand User Id's will not do the trick because I want to track them before visitors identify themselves through a form. There's no login.
Initially I thought I'll be able to create a segment to narrow down to users with more than one of this company's domains in their history, but that is not working. Should that do the trick?
Thanks.
In the view that get all data you have to create a segment to show users that visited first and second domain. If it is greater than 0 means the cross domain is set correctly.
For good implementation see Troubleshooting Cross-Domain Tracking in Google Analytics: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.simoahava.com/amp/analytics/troubleshooting-cross-domain-tracking-in-google-analytics/
While working with Google Analytics, I was thinking how do I get the name of user currently viewing my websites. I Googled and found that many Companies are providing the same & on top of that using GA, like leadfeeder, whoisvisiting etc.
So after doing more research I found a websites that provides IP's ISP full information like name, phone, email etc is https://bgp.he.net, this websites actually pull all the information related to ISP.
I again started more search using ASN number etc, but didn't got any luck. At last I came here at SO. hoping I would get good inputs from experts here.
I am eager to know the working of these companies, how they actually get those names ?
I wanted to know the Name of user or companies visiting my websites, I have no plan to buy the services from any similar services provider companies.
I know its against GDPR, but How those companies are getting the names of visitors?
Thanks in advance
It's also worth to point out that collecting PII information about your users - via Google Analytics - is against Google Analytics policy:
"To protect user privacy, Google policies mandate that no data be passed to Google that Google could use or recognize as personally identifiable information (PII). PII includes, but is not limited to, information such as email addresses, personal mobile numbers, and social security numbers."
Please check more details here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6366371?hl=en
Details of ISPs are publicly known, since they are allocated blocks of IP addresses which they distribute to their customers. The name of those customers are not generally known, and a single IP doesn't necessarily resolve to a single human in the first place. No, you cannot get an individual's name and address from an IP without a subpoena from a court and then requesting that information from the ISP, which knows the identity of the entity to which they allocated the IP. But a court won't grant you that unless you can show any law that IP has broken.
I am evaluating whether I can analyze the popularity of a certain piece of news.
For example, if I want to know how popular this news is:
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/already-watch-comes-honey-boo-boo-now-smell-205512706.html
Am I allowed to query the server about the number of visits? in any server language.
I know there are some websites serving to do this like alexa. However, it cannot analyze a subpage like the one above. It will only return the result of yahoo.com in this example.
Thanks!
Can you explain more about your requirement. Because this can be easily done using Google analytics.
You can measure the basic info as you request and also user engagement , loyalty and frequently which is important for a content web site
I'm currently working on a project where we've created a single-page website that contains a number of resources and information (including e-mails and external links to departmental sites, etc) - the site (page) will live on a USB which we will hand out to our customers over the summer.
Naturally, it'd be great to see if this campaign is successful by tracking whether or not folks are opening/using the USB site. My first thought was to alter all the out-going links to track folks via the Campaigns in Google Analytics; but since we do not own or have access to all of the various departments, this isn't an ideal solution.
My next thought was to add click events and track things that way - this would give us a nice snapshot of what folks viewing the USB were doing on it (provided they were connected to the internet at the time - we're not tremendously concerned with the accuracy of the stats, just a jist of usage). But since the site lives on a physical drive...and you can't set up a tracking account in GA without an address it seems this won't work.
My question is...is there a way around this? It almost seems like app tracking is a mix of what we need, but without being an actual app. Anyone have any advice?
Worse case scenario we just go with option 1 - best case scenario someone out there is more brilliant than I.
I'm using both on a site and getting very different numbers from each. Why is this?
The discrepancy is also mentioned in a Quora answer (Which is better, Facebook Insights or Google Analytics?)
Footnote: if you decide to use both, do not report them side-by-side,
and never expect them to match. Trying to explain the differences will
drive you mad.
Could someone explain?
This problem is quite common, and very hard to explain to clients why numbers do not reconcile amongst different analytics platforms.
Firstly, I believe that because there are remote connections to google or facebook some user sessions will get lost (What happens when they hit stop on the Browser page before the .js downloads for instance).
Secondly I believe ad blocking software may stop the file from being downloaded therefore the session is not captured.
Most hosting providers will have their own analytics platform with your hosting package. This is what I rely on as a true indicator for actual page views etc. These are usually generated directly from your web server logs so they are more accurate. Sadly I've never seen one of these packages have as many features as google or facebook.
There are tons of possible reasons. They might identify returning visitors in a different way or users might block scripts from a specific domain (e.g. *.facebook.com but not *.google.com). In general, ignore the discrepancy. Just pick one solution and use it. You'll always have visitors blocking all such scripts or just one or two specific trackers. The only (almost) 100% accurate way to do it, would be using local scripts, but even those could be blocked. You could as well look at open source solutions such as Piwik
Different web analytics products use diferent methods to track data on the site.
These differences between them is the reason why is hard do do a side-by-side comparison.
On the two links bellow you can find more info about that:
Why does Google Analytics report different values than some other web analytics solutions?
Using Google Analytics & Facebook Domain Insights to Track Social Actions on Your Website
In addition to the notes above, I also wanted to mention Google samples data when there are large volumes & dimensions. This may be a contributing factor.
Facebook reports on clicks and Analytics reports on pageviews.
The amount of pageviews might be less than the amount of clicks for a number of reasons:
There are filters on your Analytics that are blocking the pageviews from being recorded
The user left the page before the Analytics code could be recorded
Or the ads being clicked by bots and the Analytics isnt recording them
This seems to be a big problem with Facebook ads. I run a number of campaigns with facebook and I only see 30-50% of the reported traffic actually make it to the site. I cant believe this is due to only the first two reasons.
I have gone into more details on my blog http://www.bradtollefsen.com/facebook-ads-adding/