GA Event: to use this feature visit: EVENT-TRACKING.COM
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Hi guys,
Two days ago our Google Analytics Event tracker began to show this Event/Label, etc.
I cannot find its source. Anybody knows what is this about?
Thanks for your answers. Ana
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Thanks very much, Envoy! :)))))))
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been seeing many others in the industry complain lately about referrer spam getting out of control. And found it in my own site's analytics today. Quick search brought me here. So thank you Analia for posting the question, and thank you Envoy for the link on how to deal with it since .htaccess won't work in this case!
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I also got this on a client site. Thanks for the advice
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Thanks a lot Michael. Very useful article!
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Just saw it in one of my accounts for the first time today.
Here is a good article about removing it with a hostname filter: http://www.ohow.co/stop-www-event-tracking-com-referral-spam/
Good luck!
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Oh bummer! In that case, it's like that evil ghost spam crud.
We haven't seen that URL as event spam yet but only as referral spam. Only a matter of time... ugh.
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Kim
Unfortunately that's not going to work. I removed the tracking code yesterday and guess what - I had 30 visits & 3 events measured today. These false measures are not generated on the site so blocking them in htaccess is not going to work.
Rgds
Dirk
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We're seeing a lot of spam referrals from this url as well.
I recommend adding it to your .htaccess file. There's no reason to even let spam from that source mess with your website or stats.
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Thanks Dirk. I think I can deal with the false event in my reports. I'm glad it's not a hack in our website code.
Thanks again for your help. I appreciate it.
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Analia,
It seems to be a new kind of analytics spam - just checked an analytics account for a site which is under construction (only one page - no real visitors & no events set-up).
I saw the same event appearing in my stats. Others see the same thing as well: http://www.redcardinal.ie/general/07-05-2015/just-when-you-thought-ga-referrer-spam-was-bad/Not sure how these clean these events from the reporting.
rgds
Dirk
Edit: also 2 mentions in Google Analytics forum: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!searchin/analytics/to$20use$20this$20feature$20visit$3A$20EVENT-TRACKING.COM
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Thanks Martijn. The brower is (not set), weird. This is the first time I see an event we have not set in GA. My concern is about website security, can this be somebody hacking our website's code or it's just a GA problem?
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Hi Ana,
Check the browser + version that they're using. Our analytics set up also includes very weird events that we never set.
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