SEMALT

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 first 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... Bot traffic 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 traffic. 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,..