am having a bit of trouble with regards to google analytics. I've been searching for clues on how to construct my query to return results for Paid Traffic under Traffic Sources-->Search-->Paid but to no avail. Apparently ga:medium==organic works as a filter for Organic and according to documentation ga:medium only accepts ppc, organic, referral or (not set). Any one knows how to get the results for Paid Traffic? Thanks in advance.
Don't know about the API, but in the interface the medium for paid traffic is "cpc", so "ga:medium==cpc" should be worth a try (actually I use this when I query GA via Google App script, so I'm pretty confident it will work).
According to Google's official documentation (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v3/common-queries) the full paid traffic is the following:
filters=ga:medium==cpa,ga:medium==cpc,ga:medium==cpm,ga:medium==cpp,ga:medium==cpv,ga:medium==ppc
According to Google's "Default Channel Grouping" definition (under "Paid Search"), you should apply the following filter:
filters=ga:medium=~^(cpc|ppc|paidsearch)$;ga:adDistributionNetwork!=Content
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I have received bot traffic on my website recently that I am having trouble filtering out. In Google Analytics, it says that the traffic is from the Organic Search channel. When I click into Organic Search, it says that the keyword they used to get to my website is the URL for the traffic bot website (e.g. www.botexample.com). When I drop this URL into the search term exclusion tool in Property>Tracking Info, it doesn't actually filter anything out. That bot traffic will still appear in my Google Analytics home page.
Thanks in advance for the help!
search term is a different dimension from kewyword. The first is terms used in the internal search, the second is the keyword entered in Google Search. The second can't be used in a filter. So you have to find another identifier to use to exclude bot hits.
With the goal of performing analysis that does not include staff traffic, I started following this guide to exclude internal visits which seemed great but apparently cannot work retroactively. In fact, I've heard differing opinions on if any sort of retroactive filtering of this sort can be done in GA at all. I'm very new to using GA, but one field I noticed is the Client ID, which seems to track browsers. If I could identify which Client ID's correspond to my coworker's browsers, could I use this to retroactively exclude them from analysis? This seems like it may work to me, but I have found no sources online suggesting this as an option.
If it matters, the analysis I am most interested in is tracking exit clicks.
ClientId is not a value normally available in Analytics reports, also if the coworker has deleted the cookies that value will be different.
This solution works for Univeral Analytics and not GA4.
With Google Tag Manager, you can create a configuration that allows you to filter out internal traffic.
In GA, you can create a custom dimension that tells GA which users are internal users and not. This information is passed on by Google Tag Manager via a query string.
For a step-by-step guide read: How to Filter Internal Traffic in Google Analytics with Google Tag Manager
I see my staff has implemented Google Analytics in their app but I am pretty sure there is a significant amount of traffic that is coming from them testing the tool in production.
How can I make sure that they aren't adding to the analytics so we only see customer data? Is it setting or do i need to get them all to install a GA blocking extension in chrome? The latter sounds a little hacky.
Thanks
You need to add a filter to exclude the traffic from the staff members.
You could use their IP addresses to exclude them: Google Documentation
I have a web app that I deployed in AppHarbor with Google Analytics. Development is still ongoing and I test it very often live to checkout for example stuffs I did with the CSS, etc.
Everything is working fine but I'd like to know how many times I am accessing the website apart from the rest of the visitors who visits it. When checking the reports in Google Analytics it only shows me the ISPs of the visitors. I'll need something more drilled down like an IP address, but this seems to go against Google Analytic's policy and I do not know if this is even possible still.
Like right now I have 72 visits. But I have been testing so a lot of those could just be me. Would be good to know the actual visitor count.
I know this is probably a little late but you can set a filter to ingore your own traffic from reports. Here is how you do it.
In addition for adding a deprecated variable and using filters, you can build the code so that it only prints the tracking code if e.g. an identifier cookie is not found. Other common option is a URL parameter.
You can then set this cookie for your browser and be excluded from traffic.
Google Analytics automatically filters out some bot traffic (e.g. from Googlebot and Bing's bot), but some smart bots that execute JavaScript show up like normal users in GA reports. What's the best way to filter them out?
I spent time researching this question and wrote up a detailed answer with step-by-step instructions and screenshots. I hope others find it helpful!
http://blog.yottaa.com/2011/03/google-analytics-how-to-segment-and-filter-out-robot-traffic/