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Improve the quality of your Google Analytics data.
Navigate to Acquisitions > All Traffic > Referrals.
Set the date range to 2 months minimum.
Sort by descending bounce rate.
Identify spam traffic sources.
- Look for traffic sources with bounce rate as 100% and Avg. Session Duration is 0.
- Usually, spam websites contain words like traffic, SEO, bots, or other words that stand out of the norm.
- Note down these URLs for the next step
Exclude the spam traffic sources from the Google Analytics view.
- Navigate to the Admin section.
- Click All Filters.
- Click ADD FILTER.
- The Filter Name should be descriptive, for example, ‘Spam Traffic Filter’.
- Select Custom, Exclude, and then Campaign Source from the Filter field dropdown.
- Enter the URLs from your original list to the Filter Pattern section.
- Select the GA views, you’d like to apply this to and click Add.
- Press the Save button.
Last edited by @hesh_fekry 2023-11-14T15:10:21Z