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Possible to fool Google Analytics ?
Hi,
We looking at doing a deal with a large website based on unique visitors sent from a webpage they they are hosting on their website, to our website. The deal is worth quite a lot of money and we are planning on monitoring it via OUR google analytics account.
However, to make sure all is above board I would like to know how easy it would be (or if at all it is possible ) to fool our google analytics stats into reporting more referrals than there really are. We obviously don't want to get into a contract, where we could end up paying for spoofed visitors.
What I would like to know is
1/. Is it actually possible to fool analytics into reporting falsely high unique visitors from Webpage A to Site B (And if so how could they do it).
2/. What could we do to spot any potential abuse (IE is there an easy way to spot that these are spoofed visitors).
Many thanks for the advice.
We looking at doing a deal with a large website based on unique visitors sent from a webpage they they are hosting on their website, to our website. The deal is worth quite a lot of money and we are planning on monitoring it via OUR google analytics account.
However, to make sure all is above board I would like to know how easy it would be (or if at all it is possible ) to fool our google analytics stats into reporting more referrals than there really are. We obviously don't want to get into a contract, where we could end up paying for spoofed visitors.
What I would like to know is
1/. Is it actually possible to fool analytics into reporting falsely high unique visitors from Webpage A to Site B (And if so how could they do it).
2/. What could we do to spot any potential abuse (IE is there an easy way to spot that these are spoofed visitors).
Many thanks for the advice.
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