Question

All,
There is a website that doesn’t seem legitimate that and keeps showing all of these page views in my google analytics. Is there a way to ban certain URLs from being processed in google analytics?

Answer 1

You can make an IP address not show up by adding it to a filter.

Please look at http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55481, even though it talks about excluding internal addresses, it should work well as a guide how to do it with the “difficult” site too.

Edit: To filter on referrals you need to create a custom filter.

See http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55492 for a guide.

http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=1034830&answer=1034842 talks specifically about excluding referrers.

Note that the filters will only act on future data, the referrals that are already collected will still show up.