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Referer Spam

How to filter referrer spam from google analytics historical data

Gary Woodfine
Technical Director at threenine.co.uk
Gary is Technical Director at threenine.co.uk, an independent software vendor specialising in IoT, Field Service and associated managed services,enabling customers to be efficient, productive, secure and scale-able.
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If you have followed along with any of my previous posts on how to block referrer spam from affecting your website analytics, you have successfully… Read More »How to filter referrer spam from google analytics historical data

types of referrer spam

Spammers devised shady methods to draw traffic to their sites, ‘referrer spam’, also known as referral spam, log spam or referrer bombing. The traffic a website receives, the more opportunities there are to encourage more conversions and revenue, as well as to improve ranking.

How to block referrer spam

Gary Woodfine
Technical Director at threenine.co.uk
Gary is Technical Director at threenine.co.uk, an independent software vendor specialising in IoT, Field Service and associated managed services,enabling customers to be efficient, productive, secure and scale-able.
Latest posts by Gary Woodfine (see all)

A guide to block referrer spam Detailed  instructions on how to effectively start blocking referrer spam from your website and to stop affecting analytics reports.… Read More »How to block referrer spam

What is Referrer Spam?

Gary Woodfine
Technical Director at threenine.co.uk
Gary is Technical Director at threenine.co.uk, an independent software vendor specialising in IoT, Field Service and associated managed services,enabling customers to be efficient, productive, secure and scale-able.
Latest posts by Gary Woodfine (see all)

This post is a first in a series of upcoming posts detailing the effects of spam on your websites performance and the steps and processes… Read More »What is Referrer Spam?