When I went to the events section one of my client’s Google Analytics. I received the following notification.
This report has been filtered to include only data where there are values for “Event Label” dimension.”
Does this mean they are finally getting a handle on removing event spam. We’ve been fighting with it for months maybe even years. It would be great if Google finally found a way to remove it.
What is “event spam?” With Google Analytics you can add code to your site so that you can track things such as clicks to play a video, view an image gallery, click on a link to an external site and more. There are unfortunately rogue sites of developers that add code to their site and steal analytics code from other sites so that strange things like, “For event management use spammersdomain.com.”
Typically this has to be filtered out in the Google Analytics dashboard, but it appears the new filter applied by Google does this for you.
Nice! Thanks Google.