How to Identify Whether Your Increased Traffic Is Spam
Traffic has spiked — hallelujah! This is what you’ve been working towards! Pause: before you start celebrating, it’s good to do your due diligence and make sure that glorious, spiked blue line under “All Users” is in fact genuine users visiting the site, and not spam. The checklist to determine whether or not increased traffic is spam is not too difficult to follow. You’ll probably know in 10 minutes whether it’s time to do a celebratory dance, or if you need to solve a problem. Either way, today you’re going to do something valuable. Before taking action on that pesky spam traffic, be sure to read this article in full. It’s important that spam traffic is identified from multiple indicators . Identify spam traffic by checking suspiciously high (or low) metrics in Google Analytics There are four core metrics that can point toward spam traffic: Average Session Duration Bounce Rate Pages/Session New Users These Google Analytics metrics are incredibly useful for SEO and...