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Ghost Referral Spam
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jdhobbsuk commented Apr 28, 2015

Google Analytics has a real problem with Ghost Referral Spam. This is where bogus websites – usually porn websites – make it appear like they've brought traffic to your website via. referrals. They're just randomly hitting UA codes, usually ones ending in -1, they're not targeting your website for any particular reason.

I don't know why they do it, I guess because it's easy and a few clueless souls will copy/paste the link. There's a few in there, like guardlan and hulfingtonpost, that seem to exist to make you think "Holy crap, The Guardian linked to X!"

I'm surprised Google haven't been firefighting this from the beginning, but I'm even more surprised that they still haven't found a solution.

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