If you're seeing traffic from ai-seo-services.com in your Google Analytics, you're dealing with referral spam that can skew your data. I'll show you how to block this spam traffic effectively.

There are three main methods to block ai-seo-services.com from your analytics:

Method 1: Using Filters in Google Analytics

1. Log into your Google Analytics account
2. Navigate to Admin settings
3. Select the View you want to filter
4. Click on "Filters"
5. Click the "+ New Filter" button
6. Configure the filter with these settings:
   • Filter Name: Block ai-seo-services.com
   • Filter Type: Custom
   • Exclude
   • Filter Field: Campaign Source
   • Filter Pattern: ai-seo-services.com
7. Click "Save"

Method 2: Using .htaccess (for Apache servers)

Add this code to your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*ai-seo-services\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

Method 3: Using Valid Hostname Filter

1. Create a new filter in Google Analytics
2. Set Filter Type to "Custom"
3. Select "Include"
4. Choose "Hostname" as Filter Field
5. Enter your actual domain name in the Filter Pattern
6. Save the filter

For the most effective blocking, I recommend combining Method 1 with Method 3. This ensures both direct blocking of ai-seo-services.com and filtering out invalid hostnames.

Additional Tips:

• Always make a backup of your original view before applying filters
• Monitor your analytics for a few days after implementing filters to ensure they work correctly
• Consider creating a raw data view without filters as a backup
• Update filters if you notice new spam patterns emerging

Remember that filters only work on new data and won't affect historical data. If you need clean historical data, you'll need to create a new view and apply these filters from the start.

These methods should effectively block ai-seo-services.com from appearing in your analytics, giving you cleaner, more accurate data for your website's performance analysis.

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