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Create a hostname filter

Create a hostname filter - Google Analytics Tutorial

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Create a hostname filter

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- [Instructor] We've done a pretty good job blocking any spammy looking languages and crawler spam. Now, let's protect against ghost spam. That's the fabricated data sent directly to Google Analytics that never even touches your site. It's likely that spammers don't even know your domain. They're just sending it to Google using the UA number on your site or just guessing it randomly. So you can check the host name, which is basically your domain. And if it doesn't match, you can filter it out. Let's take a look at what host names are reported to us. I can go to one of my sites. We can go to Audience, Technology, Network, and then Host Name. Now, you might only see a couple here. So, you'll probably have to go back in time a little bit. Let's change this to the beginning of the year. There we go. So, your domain is obviously fine, both with and without the www. As is, any translated content, like translate.googleusercontent.com. Or if you see web cache. Those should also be fine. But…

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