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Harrison MacDonald
Harrison MacDonald

Reputation: 1

How do I use search term exclusion on organic bot traffic in Google Analytics

I have received bot traffic on my website recently that I am having trouble filtering out. In Google Analytics, it says that the traffic is from the Organic Search channel. When I click into Organic Search, it says that the keyword they used to get to my website is the URL for the traffic bot website (e.g. www.botexample.com). When I drop this URL into the search term exclusion tool in Property>Tracking Info, it doesn't actually filter anything out. That bot traffic will still appear in my Google Analytics home page.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 202

Answers (1)

Michele Pisani
Michele Pisani

Reputation: 14189

search term is a different dimension from kewyword. The first is terms used in the internal search, the second is the keyword entered in Google Search. The second can't be used in a filter. So you have to find another identifier to use to exclude bot hits.

Upvotes: 0

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