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In this video you're going to learn how to remove spam traffic from your Google Analytics reports.

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So as you were looking at your acquisition reports you may see that especially in the referrals section

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a report you might notice some Web sites that are look a bit strange that are sending you high volumes

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of traffic but that their balance rates are extremely high.

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They're not engaging with the site at all.

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The names are usually a telltale sign if they're spam sites or not.

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Well you can always just do a quick search in google if you're not sure and type in the domain name

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and then spam and you can really check if other people have reported it as a spam's site really want

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your Google Analytics data to be as accurate as possible and is useful.

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So if there's a site that's contributing a lot of traffic that's really altering your numbers and giving

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an inaccurate view of how many visitors and real visitors are actually coming to the site.

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That is really the reason that you'd want to remove at the this spam traffic from your reports.

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So to do that you want to come up to your admin section.

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And again you're going to put in a filter to really remove this traffic from your side so we can click

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out a filter.

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We can give it the name.

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Remove spam traffic

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or we can set it as a custom filter.

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We can then set the filter field to campaign source and then we can put in the name of the spam site

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there.

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Then we can just go ahead and click we can actually verify this filter which in this case wouldn't because

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this is just a aside I made up.

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But then to really save the filter you can just click save.

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One thing to note is that this filter to filter spam traffic and any filter on Google Analytics does

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not apply retroactively meaning it won't be removed from your reports up to date but any reports going

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forward that traffic will be filtered out of it.

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So usually it's good to maybe leave it a day or two and then come back and make sure that for those

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last two days that they're at that site isn't showing up as any referral traffic.

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So never you know had to remove spam traffic from your Google Analytics reports come into the admin

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section an OD a filter to remove your spam traffic following the steps they've learned in this video.