Unknown site using our analytics code.

Question

This morning I looked through our google analytics and realized that we have an unknown site using our analytics code; this is because they copied our website design and even used our letter of source code for writing.

Is there any way to filter this site out of our Google analytics, since the data essentially brings our data together.

Greetings

Answer 1

You can filter your data.

First, you can figure out what a domain is by adding a secondary “Hostname” dimension to your content view. If you have a descriptor of which hostnames are using (www.thief.com, thief.com, subdomain.thief.com or something else).

Create a filter (here: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55494 )

Set a filter to exclude traffic on behalf of a thief.

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(There is some information on how this is implemented in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/analytics-help-basics/browse_thread/thread/051be84cfb20338a?pli=1 )

Answer 2

@yahelc, while your instructions are fine, if you look at the documentation, this filter often does not work.

I recommend using Custom Filter / Exclude Filter / Filter Field: The host name where the regular expression pattern can be used

To check your template, go to "Visitor Properties / Network / Host Name" and try in the filter window