If Undeveloped Traffic Stats are Bots, Are Google Analytics from Same Undeveloped Bots?

Yes.

It's not Undeveloped's fault, but I found 90-95% of traffic to my domains comes from a small group of cities around the world, not even big cities. Also a lot of it is from referrers that have links to your domains which they just crawl, over and over.

If you look at the Behavior -> Page titles info and then use secondary info to do Users -> City , you will see most of it coming from the same locations.

Its not uncommon to see one domain get hit from several of those sites, in different languages, at the same time.

For example, earlier today I looked at GA and saw 110 visits for the day. Checking cities I see: Zhengzhou, Minato, Kyoto, Boardman, etc over and over again. One domain : NOUA.org was visited 10 times in one hour from 5 different locations around the world. It will get visited again several times this week in the same pattern. Thats not a human.

Another thing is referrers / traffic sites. Today I see some traffic coming from johnthompson .top , which redirects to a traffic site "Xtraffic+", which may have been used in the past to generate traffic or might just be an aggregator of sites for some kind of traffic scheme.

ALL of these are worthless traffic that fools you into thinking people are visiting your site.

lol... sure, It is horrible and time wasting.

Google Analytics has been providing Bot Filtering since about 2014. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.

1. Go to Admin Settings
2. Under "View" panel, click "View Settings"
3. Check the "Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders" checkbox under "Bot Filtering" in the resulting panel.

If you already have this box checked and you are seeing bot traffic in GA, then those bots aren't yet (or may never be) filtered by GA.

EbookLover said:

Google Analytics has been providing Bot Filtering since about 2014. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.

1. Go to Admin Settings
2. Under "View" panel, click "View Settings"
3. Check the "Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders" checkbox under "Bot Filtering" in the resulting panel.

If you already have this box checked and you are seeing bot traffic in GA, then those bots aren't yet (or may never be) filtered by GA.

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Had that turned on since day 1. Still 90-95% visits are not human.

Go to SEOKicks.de and check backlinks for your domain. If you have backlinks, they might be on spammy blogs and PBNs. Your job will then be to contact these blogs and tell them to remove the links.

You might also be able to block these bots via .htaccess file if you have even just one page (like a landing page) setup for the domain on a hosting account.

But like I said...

EbookLover said:

If you already have this box checked and you are seeing bot traffic in GA, then those bots aren't yet (or may never be) filtered by GA.

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BTW: In case anyone is interested in a little trivia, according to this article from 2014, Google uses the IAB/ABC International Spiders and Bots List, which you have to pay for to access (lol).

So if your problem bots are not on that list, then they will not be filtered in GA. Of course, things may have changed in the last 5 years.

Same Bots..Dont they sleep?

DNGear said:

Same Bots..Dont they sleep?

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Check your US cities, don't be surprised if you see "Boardman" a lot of times. Lots of "Lansing" and "Detroit" too.

NYJimbo said:

Check your US cities, don't be surprised if you see "Boardman" a lot of times. Lots of "Lansing" and "Detroit" too.

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Yes

How can we block these bots?

EbookLover said:

Google Analytics has been providing Bot Filtering since about 2014. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.

1. Go to Admin Settings
2. Under "View" panel, click "View Settings"
3. Check the "Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders" checkbox under "Bot Filtering" in the resulting panel.

If you already have this box checked and you are seeing bot traffic in GA, then those bots aren't yet (or may never be) filtered by GA.

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Doesn't really work. Very annoying

Haykay2005 said:

Doesn't really work. Very annoying

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really?

jideofor said:

really?

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Yes bro . Google sef no fit tackle bots 100%

Haykay2005 said:

Doesn't really work. Very annoying

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True. Not sure what they consider bots, the visits come in fast, one quick view and gone. But then they repeat at least daily.

I may be wrong, but I think some of these bots mimic browsers. If you look at the audience and browser so you will see things like "Chrome", "Firefox", etc. But why would a human do the kind of searching like when you see ONE domain searched by ONE visitor in FIVE languages, every day ?

The signature these visitors put out probably mimic browsers or mobile devices, so they get past bot filters, but they are likely bots all the same.

A similiar issue happens with Godaddy "whois" look up. You can download this info from youor account. If you sort the traffic you can see daily, weekly and monthly whois lookups. Why is someone viewing one domain once a day, every day for a year. If they are looking for the expiration date, they get it one the first view.

There are service that alert you whenver the whois owner changed..
https://www.namepros.com/threads/im-james-iles-ama-ask-me-anything.1130881/page-2#post-7180956
I also receive daily emails with monitoring alerts to show me which names are moving at the moment.

It seems that the Boardman hits are coming from AWS. I followed the directions at the link below to create some filters to keep these Amazon bots out. It seems to take some time to apply, so I can't confirm that the filters will work, but the people in the comments seem to have had success.

http://techwhet.jduy.com/2014/09/google-analytics-to-to-filter-out.html