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  • How to Exclude Traffic from Link Shortener Site

    Posted by seohelper on March 23, 2021 at 8:02 am

    Hey r/seo,

    yesterday we got a bit of Spam Traffic to our site from an rb.gy shortened Link. We had around 1k hits over one Hour from this specific Link.
    I’m currently trying to exclude this Traffic from our Analytics, but I can’t seem to get it to work correctly.

    I tried the following:

    Exclude > Campaign Source > Filter Pattern: rb.gy

    Exclude > Referral > Filtern Pattern: complete link

    If I try the Filter Verification, it always gives me “This filter would not have changed your data.”

    Someone got an Idea how to fix this?

    Regards
    ph1l

    sannidhis replied 3 years ago 1 Member · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies
  • ArborGreenDesign

    Guest
    March 23, 2021 at 11:23 am

    Are you just trying to filter out that traffic from GA or just block the traffic from getting to your site? A quick php script can stop that traffic from reaching your site.

  • AndyTAR

    Guest
    March 23, 2021 at 5:06 pm

    I was hit by that exact same rubbish yesterday. Someone else commented on that thread who also had a big increase in traffic. I got rid of using the Hostname in GA – it all came from the same hostname for me, but may not be the same for you.

  • Imgoingtowingit

    Guest
    March 23, 2021 at 5:12 pm

    I got a spike yesterday too from a bit.ly KW. I ignored it. It came and went and hasnt returned.

  • sannidhis

    Guest
    March 24, 2021 at 5:55 am

    Try “rb.gy”.