If you have unrealistic traffic in your Google Analytics or you see some Referral URLs that seem a little fishy, then likely they do not belong. These websites are called Ghost Referrals and they clog up your analytics account with junk data. For a more accurate representation of your site’s realistic analytics you need to create filters in order to remove these Ghosts.
Known List of Referral Spam
Google Analytics Regular Expressions
floating-share-buttons.com|free-social-buttons.com|4webmasters.org|trafficmonetizer.org|traffic2money.com|free-floating-buttons.com|get-free-social-traffic.com|event-tracking.com|Get-Free-Traffic-Now.com|chinese-amezon.com|e-buyeasy.com
.*((darodar|priceg|buttons\-for(\-your)?\-website|makemoneyonline|blackhatworth|hulfingtonpost|o\-o\-6\-o\-o|(social|(simple|free|floating)\-share)\-buttons)\.com|econom\.co|ilovevitaly(\.co(m)?)|(ilovevitaly(\.ru))|(humanorightswatch|guardlink)\.org).*
.*((best(websitesawards|\-seo\-(solution|offer))|get\-free(\-social)?\-traffic(\-now)?|googlsucks)\.com|(domination|torture)\.ml|((rapidgator\-)?(general)?porn(hub(\-)?forum)?|4webmasters)\.(ga|tk|org|uni)|(buy\-cheap\-online)\.info).*
.*((event\-tracking|semalt(media)?|(100dollars|success)\-seo|chinese\-amezon|e\-buyeasy|theguardlan|webmaster\-traffic)\.com|traffic(monetize(r)?|2money)\.(org|com)|pops\.foundation|erot\.co).*
Additional Resources
- Removing Referral Spam from Google Analytics
By Ben Travis
Digital Analyst - Stop floating-share-buttons.com referral spam in Google Analytics
by Carlos Escalera
Web analyst – Ohow