23.05.2018
Semalt Shares A Guide To Blocking And Removing Google Analytics Spam
Analytics spam is not a new issue, but most recently it has become far more dangerous than ever. Here the leading expert from Semalt, Lisa Mitchell, is going to explain some ways of blocking and removing Google Analytics spam. You would also get an idea of how they impact your sites. The rst thing you would have to know is that analytics spam comes in different forms: ghost spam and bot spam. Both of these forms impact your Google Analytics to a great extent. Therefore, the way to deal with them should be different, and your focus should be on how to remove them by the whole.
What is Bot Spam? Bot traf c or bot spam is more common and dangerous than you would ever expect. In recent months, it has infected more than two billion websites due to low-quality traf c. Not all of the bots are dangerous or bad, though. Google, Bing, and other big search engines depend on the search bots when it comes to crawling and indexing the content on the websites. The commercial crawlers such as SEMrush, Pinterest, feed fetchers such as FeedBurner, Twitter, as well as and monitoring bots such as WordPress, Uptime Robot, are all good to go with. But you should do your best to get rid of spam bots that tend to ruin your site to a great extent. Spam bots or crawler spam are the programs that are designed to automate different tasks, such as stealing your content and data, server jacking, spamming of comments, phishing attacks, and DDoS attacks. They fall into different categories, such as hacking tools, impersonators, spammers, and scrapers. Impersonators are those that use false identities to bypass your security measures. They are used to deploy DDoS attacks. The second type is the hacking tool, which is used for distributing different malware and viruses. Two years ago, Google claimed that 200 https://rankexperience.com/articles/article1588.html
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