In a previous post, I showed you how to block referral spam from your analytics account. I now use an updated method of returning the referral spambots to the spammer’s site. Well, the spammers are at it again, this time with organic keyword spam.
If you have seen a rise in organic keywords that just don’t look right in your analytics account, you may have fallen victim to organic keyword spam.
One of the most common phrases being used in organic keyword spam at the moment is:
beat with a shovel the weak google spots addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ilovevitaly/
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How to find organic keyword spam
You can find organic keyword spam by logging into your Google Analytics account, on the left-hand navigation, select ‘Acquisition’ and then ‘Channels’. Click on organic.
Most of the keyword data will be blocked by ‘not provided’. If you see something like the image below, I’m afraid your Analytics data has been manipulated.
How to Block organic keyword Spam
Blocking organic keyword spam is a fairly simple process. Just follow these simple steps below to stop any further manipulation of your precious Google Analytics data.
1. Navigate to your admin section
2. Select the account that you would like to work on.
3. Select All Filters and then click + ADD FILTER.
4. For the filter name, enter
“beat with a shovel the weak google spots addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ilovevitaly”
5. In Filter Type, choose Custom Filter > Exclude Filter > Campaign Term > Filter Pattern: “beat with a shovel the weak google spots addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ilovevitaly” and click Save.
That’s all. No more keyword spam clogging up your Google Analytics data.
Adam Vowles
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Thanks for this helpful tutorial on how to remove organic keyword spam! I’m really getting sick & tired of all these spammers!
Me too 🙁
Spam is being rampant. Thank you for this information.
No problem.
This is a really useful tutorial on how to look into things on its own if you have an ecommerce web site and need to have the analytics program
Glad you like it
Thank you for informing us of the new organic keywords being used! I will be following these steps and doing what I can to get rid of it immediately.
Good luck! Let me know if you get stuck.
The keywords these spammers are using to get to us are definitely creative. How do they come up with things like “beat with a shovel the weak google spots addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ilovevitaly/”; seriously?
They are trying to make you search for the mozilla addon.
This is a useful tutorial. I have a blog which I have not worked on for the last 6 months. Your tutorials will come in handy when I finally sit down and fix my site. Thanks!
Glad you found it useful 🙂
What is the purpose of this organic keyword spamming? I’m not really understanding what the spammers are gaining out of this.
They are essentially trying to get traffic from a website owner seeing that a website spam in analytics and investigating where it has come from