Analytics not tracking spammers?

Discussion in 'Google Analytics' started by FFMG, Jul 18, 2011.

  1. #1
    Since the middle of last week I have seen a 200%-300% increase in traffic, almost all of it is spammer creating accounts.

    From my own server side tools I know that the increase is from different IP addresses located all over the world.
    In other word, there isn't a straight forward rule that can be applied to catch the spammers, (not one that I can see anyway).

    But looking at Google Analytic it looks like none of the increased traffic is included.
    If anything it is reporting a slight drop in traffic.

    From this I can assume 2 things,
    1- The spammers don't use Javascript.
    2- Google somehow keeps track of spammers and does not count them.

    I suspect that the reason is #1, but do you think that Google keeps track of spammers in the site counters?

    FFMG
     
    FFMG, Jul 18, 2011 IP
  2. atozvision

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    maybe Analytics not tracking spammers
     
    atozvision, Jul 26, 2011 IP
  3. aileenwuornos

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    Analytics only counts visit, doesn't matter where it comes from.
     
    aileenwuornos, Jul 27, 2011 IP
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    Revasmith Guest

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    Yes you are right!!!

    It is very helpful to check the visits on a site.
     
    Revasmith, Aug 1, 2011 IP
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    what type of of rights have Google analytic in research group & what is Bounce rate in google Analytics
     
    digitalhelix22, Aug 2, 2011 IP
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    Yeeh Jaish_D you are right!!!
     
    jollydutta, Aug 5, 2011 IP