Unknown site using our analytics code

Question

Hi there,

I did a review on our google analytics this morning and realised that we have a unknown site using our analytics code; this is because they copied our site design and even used our source code letter for letter.

Is there a way to filter out this site from our google analytics as there data is essentially scewing our data.

Cheers

Answer 1

You can filter out their data.

First, you can figure out what the domain is by adding the 'Hostname' secondary dimension in your content view. Once you have a handle on what hostnames its using (www.thief.com, thief.com, subdomain.thief.com, or whatever).

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

Set the filter to exclude traffic from the thief's hostname.

(This thread has some details on how this implemented: http://groups.google.com/group/analytics-help-basics/browse_thread/thread/051be84cfb20338a?pli=1)