If you notice a huge spike in the amount of referral traffic you see reported in Google Analytics, chances are your results are being inflated by a site that is spamming you. The good news is you can easily clean up your data by excluding the traffic from the offending domain.
To block referral traffic from a domain in Google Analytics:
1. Click Admin
2. From the Property column, click Tracking Info
3. Click Referral Exclusion List
4. Click +Add Referral Exclusion
5. Enter the domain name you want to exclude
6. Click Create
Google Analytics does a good job of blocking most spammers behind the scenes, but if you see a domain that slips through the cracks, now you know how to remove the bad data and improve the accuracy of your analytics.
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