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Re:The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build by pedalpete on Monday February 13, 2017 @04:20PM (#13638875)
Can you elaborate as to what sort of spam you are referring to? Do you mean bots viewing your pages? Or is it something else?
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Re:The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build by whatever_dude on Monday February 13, 2017 @05:18PM (#13639307)
Referral spam. Pretty common nowadays. Plenty of articles talking about it and showing how to filter it.

https://moz.com/blog/how-to-stop-spam-bots-from-ruining-your...

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Re:The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build by gressquel on Monday February 13, 2017 @04:27PM (#13638927)
He is probably talking about the infamous "vitaly referrer spam". It shows up on the referrer tab of GA dashboard with a really long domain like "merry.christmas.go.to.this.link.to.get.a.price.vitaly.com".
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Re:The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build by bartread on Monday February 13, 2017 @11:02PM (#13641039)
As others have said, referer (sic) spam. Bots often show up in your logs but not Google Analytics if they don't execute JS.
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