Seoreviewtools.com

Unwanted referral traffic from seoreviewtools.com implemented in your Google Analytics data can be an issue if you want to measure your website’s real data. Most referral traffic associated with seoreviewtools.com is referrer spam that attacks your Google Analytics account with fake traffic to make it look like someone was referred to your website from seoreviewtools.com.

What is Seoreviewtools.com?

Seoreviewtools.com is a domain name that promotes affiliated online SEO services. The seoreviewtools.com domain name is used to spam your Google Analytics data with fake referral traffic in order to gain your attention and persuade you to visit the website in your browser and potentially gain income from your off of their affiliate links and promotions.

If you visit seoreviewtools.com you will be taken to a website that says “perform a full SEO audit” and contains search fields for your domain name and keyword. If you enter the information and perform a scan you will be taken to a new web page that promotes various SEO services and browser extensions.

Seoreviewtools.com employs various blackhat methods to make it appear as if someone was referred to your website from the domain name. However, no visitor was actually referred to the website from the URL. It is simply a trick to get you to visit the URL.

Here are solutions to block seoreviewtools.com referral traffic and other wanted spam in Google Analytics:

Campaign Source Filter

A campaign source filter can be used to block all seoreviewtools.com referral traffic in Google Analytics.

1. Open your Google Analytics account and go to the Admin tab > Click Filters on the right side in the VIEW section.

2. Click the + ADD FILTER button to create a new exclude filter.

3. Add seoreviewtools.com or something you can easily remember as the Filter Name.

4. Select the Custom Filter Type.

5. In Filter Field, find and select Campaign Source in the list. In the Filter Pattern text box, add seoreviewtools.com and click the blue Save button on the bottom of the webpage. To add multiple URLs to the same filter you can make a Filter Pattern similar to this with a | between each URL: Example.com | Example\.com | seoreviewtools.com

Campaign Referral Path Filter

A campaign referral path filter can be used to block single webpages.

1. Open your Google Analytics account and go to the Admin tab > Click Filters on the right side in the VIEW section.

2. Click the + ADD FILTER button to create a new exclude filter.

3. Add seoreviewtools.com or something you can easily remember as the Filter Name.

4. Select the Custom Filter Type.

5. In Filter Field, find and select Campaign Referral Path in the list. In the Filter Pattern text box, add a permalink from the referred URL and click the blue Save button on the bottom of the webpage

Language Settings Filter

Some spam may appear in your language settings as keywords, phrases, and searched terms. A language settings filter can be used to block language spam in Google Analytics.

1. Log in to your Google Analytics account and go to the Admin tab

2. In the “View” column select Filters and then click + Add Filter

3. Add a Filter Name: Language Spam (or something you can easily remember)

4. Go to: Filter Type > Custom > Exclude

5. Select Filter Field: Language settings

6. Add a Filter Pattern: \s[^s]*\s|.{15,}|\.|,

7. Click on the blue text that says Verify this filter to see a preview table of how this filter will work in your account. You should only see language spam on the left side of the table: filter-verification-language-spam

8. After you verify the filter click the Save button on the bottom of the page