Block китай.с.новым.годом рф / Referral Spam in Google Analytics

What is китай.с.новым.годом.рф / Referral ?

It’s a tactic known as Referral Spam and the russian китай.с.новым.годом.рф / Referral spam urls that target the Google Analytics with Ghost traffic/ Ghost Spam. Ghost Traffic hits your Google Analytics directly without actually visiting the website. Its one malicious piece of negative practice. Since it’s not visiting the website, any methods to block  their visit to the website at the server through methods like Javascript / wordpress plugins & like config files .htaccess won’t. Only choice is to create a filter to exclude them.

How to block китай.с.новым.годом.рф / Referral for google analystic ?

Step 1 : Open your Analytics account.

Step 2 : Go to Admin —> All Filters.  

Step 3: Click Add Filter  

Step 4: Add Filter Name : китай.с.новым.годом.рф   

Step 5: Select  Filter Type : Custom   

Step 6: Choose Filter Field : Campaign Source 

Step 7:  Add китай.с.новым.годом.рф  on Filter Pattern  

Step 8: Click Save button at the bottom of webpage