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rockstardev
rockstardev

Reputation: 13547

How to stop Google Analytics Hacks?

What people are doing is basically taking the UA-XXXXXX code that you normally get with analytics, and they are generating calls against it. This is skewing my analytics stats. On top of that, in Google WebMaster tools, it's also causing this:

People hacking my analytics stats

It looks like somehow these pages, with my code on or at least with the generated code on, is making Google Webmaster tools think I have lots of 404's. This can't possibly be good for my rankings.

Anyone know if there is anything you can do to stop this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 73

Answers (2)

Eike Pierstorff
Eike Pierstorff

Reputation: 32790

Since you can filter by custom dimensions you can set a "token" in a custom dimension on every page and filter out any traffic in your view settings that does not include the token.

Obviously this will not help against people who use the code from your website (unless you also implement shahmanthan9s suggestion - which is a lot of work but will give you cleaner data), but it will work against drive-by shooters who randomly select UAIDs to send data to (which is the situation you refer to in your comment).

Upvotes: 1

shahmanthan9
shahmanthan9

Reputation: 523

Try making async call from your server end using CURL.That way you will never expose your GA code. I have not implemented it, but it might work as per theory

Upvotes: 2

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