How to remove bot traffic from analytics

If you see dodgy links in your Google analytics dashboard then its a bot! remove it by following this quick tutorial.

Remove the bot links from your referral table and add a filter to exclude it in the future.

To add more well known bots add in the segment condition :
this time choose to exclude by hostname and regex match

offer|free\-|share\-|mercedes|buy|cheap|googlsucks|benz|sl500|hulfington|buttons|

darodar|pistonheads|motor|money|blackhat|backlink|webrank|seo|phd|crawler|anonymous|\d{3}.*forum|porn|webmaster|flipboard|fl\.ru|mbca|ahrefs|game|\.io|^sex|^video

Hit the OR button. You’ll see another identical section pop up:

dailyrank|100dollars-seo|anticrawler|sitevaluation|buttons-for-website|buttons-for-your-website|-musicas*-gratis|best-seo-offer|best-seo-solution|savetubevideo|ranksonic|offers.bycontext|7makemoneyonline|kambasoft|medispainstitute

Hit the OR button again, and copy and paste this string:

127.0.0.1|justprofit.xyz|nexus.search-helper.ru|rankings-analytics.com|videos-for-your-business|adviceforum.info|video—production|success-seo|sharemyfile.ru|seo-platform|dbutton.net|wordpress-crew.net|rankscanner|doktoronline.no|o00.in

Hit the OR button one more time, and copy and paste this string:

top1-seo-service.com|fast-wordpress-start.com|rankings-analytics.com|uptimebot.net|^scripted.com|uptimechecker.com

(bots list is taken from Neil patel site)