Ghost traffic spam avoidance

  • Hello guys!

    I’ve been using the Yoast SEO plugin together with the Analytics by Yoast. In the Analytics plugin I’ve signed in with my Gmail account and picked the right urchin code for the analytics tracker.

    However, I’ve been suffering from ghost spam ever since the creation of the website (almost 3 months ago).

    It’s almost every day that I add custom filters(Campaign source) to ban certain spammers but they keep up coming from various domains.

    My question is – would it help to reduce the traffic if there was an option that the urchin tracking code is put in an external .js file with random name for each WordPress installation? Of course this could be handled automatically by the Analytics by Yoast plugin.

    This way, the code would be hidden to the average bot and they have to crawl through all the .js files in order to find the UA. I can only suppose they all don’t do it and it will partly help.

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