Semalt Expert Knows How To Avoid Being Tricked By Online Fraudsters Sending Referrer Spam

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23.05.2018

Semalt Expert Knows How To Avoid Being Tricked By Online Fraudsters Sending Referrer Spam

Various webmasters and marketers use Google Analytics for tracking visitors, page visits, time spent on a site, and how the users interact with their sites (form submission, video play, newsletter subscriptions, e-commerce tracking). Two years ago, webmasters noticed suspicious referral traf c in their Google Analytics accounts and thought the false views were coming from unethical and illegal domains and af liate sites. Spammers and the black hat SEOs had used various techniques to add their domains to the Google Analytics accounts to make people wonder why it's happening. Semalt Senior Customer Success Manager, Julia Vashneva, tells that darodar.com keeps on sending hundreds to thousands of visitors to the sites and tricks the Google Analytics accounts in a large number.

How big is the problem? Some webmasters have reported that the false referrer traf c accounts for 55% of overall traf c, which means it has the ability to make the A/B tests and conversion optimization as well as other similar marketing campaigns meaningless until you depend on Google Analytics to take the right decisions. Even when you remove the fake visits, https://rankexperience.com/articles/article1804.html

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