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Is Your Site Seeing Ghosts?
18 October 2016 | 0 comments | Posted by Che Kohler in nichemarket Advice
When there's something strange in your website stats who you gonna call? Digital marketers aka the traffic ghost busters! Seeing as Halloween is right around the corner I thought it would be the perfect time to tackle the topic of ghost traffic.
What is ghost traffic?
A supernatural entity from the spam family and a very popular issue when it comes to skewing website analytics are called ghosts. These spooks got the name because they never actually access your site but show up in your analytics report. How is that even possible? As unusual as it sounds, this type of spam doesn't have any interaction with your site at all and that face is important to keep this in mind, as it's key to creating a more efficient solution for managing these traffic ghouls.How do ghosts haunt websites?
They do it by using the Measurement Protocol, which is an API that allows people to send data directly to Google Analytics' servers. Using this method, and probably randomly generated Google Analytics tracking IDs (UA-XXXXX-1) and then leave a "visit" with fake data, without even knowing who they are hitting.How do i find ghosts and spam bots?
These little buggers normally lurk within your organic and referral traffic channels. Once you filter into your traffic sources by medium you may see a few sources pushing high volumes but with either a 0% or 100% bounce rate. Once you have your suspicions you can confirm them by adding a secondary dimension "hostname" and if any of those sources return a "Not Set" hostname, then my friend, you have a ghostly infestation on your hands.
How do i expel ghosts from my analytics?
If you've dealt with spam before we're you may have used one of the following techniques which unfortunately won't work on ghosts.- Blocking ghost spam from the .htaccess file
- Using the referral exclusion list to stop spam
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