How to filter out client traffic
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Hi,
I would like to filter out traffic in GA that comes to my client site just to login into their application. Is there a way to create a filter or segment that if a visitor exits the site to a subdomain it will filter them out? For example, they land on the homepage (abc.com/), click the login tab (drop down screen) and login and go to their application dashboard (app.abc.com/). I would like to delete this traffic segment as it is creates high bounce rates and makes it difficult to test landing pages.
Thanks so much,
Donna
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All of this is given that you know your way around GA.
The first thing you should do is make sure you have at least one unfiltered profile and another profile. You can make a number of profiles. The current documentation states you can have 50 profiles.
The profiles that are made will not include data previous to the creation of the profile. You do not want to filter your main profile.
To get around that, you can make an exclude segment, it's not permanent, based upon landing page while new data is populating your new profiles.
Alternately, you can just do a quick exclude shortcut for individual landing pages, if there aren't dozens to thousands of login pages. You can also remove your GA code from that page(s). But I can't totally recommend that. There may be some things you can figure out there as well.
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Donna -
We've had that issue as well. The best option is to put an onclick event on the login link.
You can find more details here -- https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/events or
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/eventTrackerGuide depending on whether use the old version of ga or the universal analytics
Once you do that, google will automatically ward out the false positives.
K
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