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Problem Blocking Internal Traffic in Analytics

The cookie method blocked everything :(

         

RossWal

9:27 pm on Aug 22, 2008 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I may be in the wrong forum, but since the issue regards an adwords linked analytics account, I hope it's close enough.

Attempting to block traffic from GA coming from our own resources, some of whom are on a dynamic IP, I used the "advanced" method suggested by GA. We created a page that would set a local cookie, then created a custom exlude filter using the string placed in the cookie.

The parameters for the filter, per the GA instuctions [google.com]:

Filter Type: Custom filter > Exclude
Filter Field: User Defined
Filter Pattern: InternalUser <- note we changed this value
Case Sensitive: No

This resulted in ALL traffic being excluded from the GA reports. I know this isn't much to go on, but any ideas on where I went wrong?

cyberandroid

7:01 am on Aug 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



i think we need to see the cookie