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Re:How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google An... by bhartzer on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @10:18AM (#13263586)
Google Analytics already filters out fair amount of bot traffic from Google Analytics (compare your server log files with GA traffic and you'll see what I mean). Why they haven't tackled this problem is a mystery.
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Re:How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google An... by enzanki_ars on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:46PM (#13266469)
The traffic mismatch is not due to any filtering by Google. Most people useing some sort of ad-blocking technology have Google Analytics blocked by default, preventing any traffic info being reported.
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