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Sharebutton.to showing up as one of my pages

When I look at Behavior -> Site Content -- it shows that /sharebutton.to is one of my most popular pages and i have to idea why.

I have done some research and have found how to remove sharebutton.to as a referal link, but I have not found anything on why google analytics thinks that /sharebutton.to is one of my pages.

If you actually go to the link coloriddistribution/com/sharebutton.to, it will go to a 404 page.

How can I correct this so that I am getting accurate analytics? See screenshot:

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dps19001 Avatar asked Nov 15 '16 15:11

dps19001


1 Answers

The site sends fake traffic to your website, just to increase its own google page rank.

sharebutton.to referrer spam is designed to create repeated site requests to the website it lands on. The benefits that referral spammers have with this tactic is that it will help them advertise the website they want people to visit and it will also improve the spammers search engine ranking.

Solution: Add a filter in google analytics to remove the traffic from your reports. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034842?hl=en

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Enrico Avatar answered Dec 17 '22 08:12

Enrico