Over the last few months i have seen a huge spike in traffic from foreign countries
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In GA i have seen a huge spike in traffic from foreign countries like japan, china, brazil, germany. the bounce rates are almost all 100%. any ideas why this is occurring?
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Hi Dhanson,
This spike in traffic is most likely caused by Spam check your referral reports for hits from guardlink, free-social-buttons, 4webmasters or any suspicious referral. This type of spam usually have high percentage of bounce rate.
If you find spam you can exclude them from your analytics using a filter based on your hostnames. You can find detailed information and a guide in this related question.
http://moz.com/community/q/blocking-non-u-s-traffic-to-fight-referral-spam#reply_301107
Hope it helps
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