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Over the past few days, before the election, many webmasters were complaining that in their analytics, they were seeing analytics spam for "vote for trump".
Here is a screen shot of the language section in Google Analytics showing the spam that reads "secret.google.com You are invited! Enter only with this ticket URL. Copy it. Vote for Trump!"
Here is a screen shot:
Analytics spam is not uncommon but honestly, it seems like such a waste of effort. Well, Trump did win, no one expected it, maybe the analytics spam gave them the edge? :P
Fellow #SEO you guys seeing this #Trump showing up in mass analytics accounts? @Google @rustybrick @randfish @BrendanVanZile @larrykim today pic.twitter.com/7f6yiabYgt
— Wolf Of SEO (@WolfOfSEO) November 8, 2016
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Comments:
Mambo Man
11/09/2016 04:29 pm
nope.
KleponPink
11/09/2016 11:02 pm
There's no correlation, I think
Justin Tyler Moore
11/09/2016 11:56 pm
I saw this on several sites I manage. When visiting the link is says to copy, it takes you to a site that surprisingly wasn’t registered privately and owned by a person in Russia. Here is the details from WhoIs: Admin Name: Vitaly A Popov Admin Organization: Private person Admin Street: Aurory str. 70-141 Admin Postal Code: 443070 Admin Country: RU Admin Phone: +7.9608143259 Admin Email: email@mail.ru The link isn’t exactly, secret.google.com, they used a special character for the g. The actual link is this: Secret.ɢoogle.com. Visit at your own risk.
Hinge Joint
11/10/2016 11:35 pm
Vitaly is well known for ghost referral spams. It used to be "ilovevitaly.com" then it was sth along the lines of "google analytics etc". But that crap of his really screws up your overall perception of traffic
Justin Tyler Moore
11/11/2016 07:36 am
Does it cause any harm to SEO or page ranking? And if so, how to fix?
Carlos
11/11/2016 01:01 pm
Analytics data doesn't have any effect on SEO/rankings. There isn't real backlink from these "site" so you shouldn't worry about that either. The only thing you should take in consideration is your analytics data. You can preveng most of the spam in GA using a valid hostname filter https://www.ohow.co/ultimate-guide-to-removing-irrelevant-traffic-in-google-analytics/
Sameer Panjwani
11/15/2016 04:41 am
Does anyone know how they do it? Curious how you get that showing up under language
Shubhu Barot
11/16/2016 09:25 am
Can we filter this spam like other (http://ilovevitaly.com/) in Google Analytics.
Analytics Edge
11/17/2016 02:15 am
New segment to eliminate all GA spam posted to GA Solutions Gallery https://www.google.com/analytics/gallery/#posts/search/%3F_.viewId%3Dp4-Ox3G3RyGIh0jUPudXjA/
Filippo
11/18/2016 11:29 am
I was wondering about what is the advantage of spammers to spam your analytics account. I mean, except the fact you read the message they wanted you to read, like Vote for Trump or whatever..
365dayscoupons
11/19/2016 03:05 am
Yes, My google Analytics data is showing from 14th November
my3sons
11/19/2016 10:50 pm
Saw it
Aniketh
11/20/2016 07:06 am
Did you find an answer?
Feelin'TheBernAbroad
11/21/2016 12:11 pm
I had the same and it all originates from Russia!
Symplocos Solutions
11/21/2016 12:40 pm
Can we filter this spam link?
Tom Jordan
11/21/2016 05:08 pm
Use a Segment with a Filter to EXCLUDE Source/Medium matches regex secret\..oogle\.com
Tyler Herrick
11/21/2016 11:41 pm
They set their language parameter in the script to that string...
Son of V.I.N.CENT
11/22/2016 01:24 am
Ours arrived a week late
Dan
11/22/2016 02:23 pm
So is it fake clicks? (
Cos
11/22/2016 10:56 pm
What do you think?
Brahma
11/30/2016 03:46 am
how to stop spam clicks plz tell me
Maria Ujvari
12/01/2016 06:47 am
In the past two days (29-30. November) ruined our statistics completely. And it is a nightmare to set up a working View in Analytics.:(((
Perry Bernard
12/02/2016 03:22 am
The bot that was doing that is still running. Hitting one of my websites with mass referrals in the last 2 days. Source country is Russian Federation.
Esmée
12/02/2016 07:17 am
Same here! Had 450 'visits' from the bot the last 5 days. Normally I have 10 visitors a day on our website
gareth jax
12/02/2016 10:02 am
Check this guide! my profile is now clean. https://www.ohow.co/ultimate-guide-to-removing-irrelevant-traffic-in-google-analytics/
gareth jax
12/02/2016 10:03 am
it's not my article, but this guide solved 100% of my problems with the analytics spam. https://www.ohow.co/ultimate-guide-to-removing-irrelevant-traffic-in-google-analytics/
Ed Luvables
12/02/2016 03:09 pm
Tell him to call off the hounds! This is ridiculous, I've been hit with thousands of these views. What's worse is you can't add filters from your account with admin access, it has to be the original GA account.
Daniel
12/20/2016 04:41 pm
A solution (custom dimensions + password) in German: https://www.browserdoktor.de/spammer-nutzen-vermeintliche-google-adressen/