Direct Traffic Spam Google Analytics

cleverliving · May 14, 2015

hey guys i would really love some help on this analytics problem im facing.

my bounce rates are amazing throughout my entire site however i have recently started to get a huge amount of direct traffic for some reason.

this direct traffic is almost 100% bounce rate.

what is this?
how can i check it?
what can i do to stop it?

thanks guys

bartosimpsonio · May 14, 2015

This is where server-side logs are still useful. Client side javascript doesn't solve all problems.... If you have the server logs, you can check referrers, IP's and patterns to try and diagnose where this traffic is from.

cleverliving · May 14, 2015

do you mean loging into cpannel in awstats?

i looked in analytics and it says that they are all unique users.

KHR · May 14, 2015

Some times I got Many Traffic, I was Surprised after that I realized they are Crawler BOT Visit. You may Got this type of Crawl Traffic.

cleverliving · May 14, 2015

K.H.R said:
Some times I got Many Traffic, I was Surprised after that I realized they are Crawler BOT Visit. You may Got this type of Crawl Traffic.

how would i confirm this?
how would i prevent this?

im getting 200ish per day when my website is getting about 100-150 genuine unique people per day.

KHR · May 14, 2015

cleverliving said:
how would i confirm this?
how would i prevent this?

im getting 200ish per day when my website is getting about 100-150 genuine unique people per day.

There is no way to prevent this, maybe I dont know it. Web Crawler will Crawl, If you Build any link.

karam76 · May 14, 2015

they are bots (may be used by search engines), there is no way to prevent this.
Stay calm, Just grab a glass of beer and focus on content of your site.

cleverliving · May 14, 2015

karam76 said:
they are bots (may be used by search engines), there is no way to prevent this.
Stay calm, Just grab a glass of beer and focus on content of your site.

its quite frustrating when if completely throws of the analytic readings.
i know bounce rate is a large factor in google rankings these days. will this affect it?

carlosea5 · May 14, 2015

The combination of unusual direct traffic and the bounce rate is most likely because of ghost spam. Lately, GA has been hit with fake direct visits along with the common referral spam, probably as a distraction. Here is an article describing this issue and the solution to stop it

ohow.co/unusual-increase-in-direct-traffic-on-ga-spam/

Hope it helps.

johnbaldry99 · Jun 9, 2015

Yup, there are services out there that deliver totally irrelevant traffic. and that is why you have 100% bounce on it.
Some people use these services in order to build up traffic stats in order to sell their domain at flippa etc

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