I need help with setting up filters on analytics

johnfrem · 02-27-2009, 01:35 AM

My website keeps getting referral traffic from another website that i would like filter out from my Google Analytics data because its messing up my stats. I tried "exclude all traffic from a domain" under filter settings but its not working.

Can someone point me in the right direction please?

Malasdair · 02-27-2009, 02:07 AM

Hi,

Get the site's IP address (you can use a free online tool to do that) and then create a filter using that. Should work.

HTH,

Alasdair

johnfrem · 02-27-2009, 04:03 AM

Thank you .... I did a whois lookup on the website and I set up the filter to block the ip let me wait a day or two to see if it worked.

zeurois · 02-27-2009, 04:36 AM

or .. you may setup a php script to check for the referrer and don't show the analytics code if it's from that site.

Worked?

02-27-2009, 01:35 AM	#1
johnfrem HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Baltimore City USA Posts: 125 Thanks: 6 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Social Networking Contact Info	I need help with setting up filters on analytics My website keeps getting referral traffic from another website that i would like filter out from my Google Analytics data because its messing up my stats. I tried "exclude all traffic from a domain" under filter settings but its not working. Can someone point me in the right direction please?

02-27-2009, 02:07 AM	#2
Malasdair Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Niigata, Japan Posts: 91 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: I need help with setting up filters on analytics Hi, Get the site's IP address (you can use a free online tool to do that) and then create a filter using that. Should work. HTH, Alasdair

02-27-2009, 04:03 AM	#3
johnfrem HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Baltimore City USA Posts: 125 Thanks: 6 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Social Networking Contact Info	Re: I need help with setting up filters on analytics Thank you .... I did a whois lookup on the website and I set up the filter to block the ip let me wait a day or two to see if it worked.

02-27-2009, 04:36 AM	#4
zeurois Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 511 Thanks: 24 Thanked 23 Times in 9 Posts	Re: I need help with setting up filters on analytics or .. you may setup a php script to check for the referrer and don't show the analytics code if it's from that site. Worked?