Proposed solution for Ghost Google Analytics Referral Spam

Three effective solutions for Google Analytics Referral spam
Some facts about Google Analytics Referral spam:

1. By this time you know that Ghost Google Analytics Referrals spam cannot be blocked by .htaccess or web configuration.
2. Ghost Google Analytics Referrals spam bots doesn’t really visit your website, so no trace of IP address be found in server logs.
3. Ghost Google Analytics Referrals spam only abuse Google Analytics.
4. Google Analytics hasn’t done anything about it, yet (officially).
5. Google implemented encryption for all of their AdSense traffic.
6. Ghost Google Analytics Referrals spam only affects Google Analytics.
7. *** Ghost Referrals spam also affecting Yandex and few other search engines.
8. As these bots doesn’t visit your website, they have no idea what your page title is. So Analytics will show (“/”) as the page title.
9. These Ghost Google Analytics referral spam bots only targets your primary Tracking ID i.e. ‘UA-XXXX-1′

1. Solution 1: Create a new Tracking ID for your website
2. Solution 2: Create a filter for NULL Page Title
3. Solution 3: Create a filter for valid Hostnames

Hope it helps.