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Block how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com referral spam

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how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com is one of the latest referrer spam URLs that recently started to a new spam campaign. how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com referral traffic is designed to be eye-catching. It mixes into your Google Analytics reports and fills your account with false data in order to provoke you to visit the webpage. Web traffic from how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com does not actually land on your website. It is a type of referral traffic known as ghost spam. Instead this referrer will target your Google Analytics data.

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The people behind the how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com website are notorious for referrer spam. They have many domain names and have been doing this for quite some time. They even have use another similar URL: how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.iliovevitaly.com. block how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com google analytics actually forwards to this webpage.

Referrer spam and how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com referral traffic is essentially harmless to your website but if you value your website’s appreciate data it can be a problem. This type of referral traffic can mess up your Google Analytics reports. For example, it will appear to land on your website on a single webpage and leave from the same webpage which will create a 100% bounce rate. If how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com referrals fill your data multiple times per day your bounce rate and other data measured in Google Analytics reports can get out-of-hand.

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If you visit the spam URL you will be forwarded to a  new but very similar webpage that contains information and links to other websites owned by the same entity.

How to block how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com referral traffic

This guide shows you how to block how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com referrals in Google Analytics with a filter that stops how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com referrer spam at the source.

1. Open your Google Analytics account and go to the Admin tab and click All Filters.

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

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3. Add how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com or something you can easily remember as the Filter Name.

4. Select the Custom Filter Type.

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5. In Filter Field, find and select Campaign Source in the list. In the Filter Pattern text box, add how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.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 | how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com | ilovevitaly.com | ilikevitaly.com

Also See: How to exclude all hits from known bots and spiders in Google Analytics (Bot Filtering)

Sean Doyle

Sean is a tech author and engineer with over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, privacy, malware, Google Analytics, online marketing, and other topics. He is featured in several publications.

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