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title: Remove SPAM
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title: Remove referral SPAM
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category: features
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permalink: /remove-spam
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permalink: /remove-referral-spam
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Simple Analytics has a feature where you can remove referral spam. Not by setting up complex filters, but just with a click on a button.
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Let's say you have referral SPAM from _"buy-my-product-now"_ as shown in this dashboard:
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<img class="border" src="/images/spam-overview.jpg" alt="Overview of a SPAM referral">
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This is annoying and make your stats inaccurate. If you want to remove this SPAM please follow these steps to remove it from your dashboard:
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1. Click on the _"buy-my-product-now"_ referral and scroll down the page
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1. Click on this link at the bottom of that page:
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<img class="border" src="/images/spam-click-on-link.jpg" alt="Click on this link to go to SPAM referral screen">
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1. On the next page **check carefully** if the amount of visits seems correct:
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<img class="border" src="/images/spam-verify.jpg" alt="Verify amount of visits">
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1. Download a copy of your data **(please always do this)**
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<img class="border" src="/images/spam-download-a-copy.jpg" alt="Download a copy of your data first">
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1. If you have more than 10.000 page views from this referral we can't update your dashboard directly. This means that your dashboard will not show all stats for a few minutes. It is just a warning to inform you of a possible empty dashboard, nothing serious.
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<img class="border" src="/images/spam-more-than-10000.jpg" alt="More than 10.000 page views">
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1. Remove the visits by clicking the button.
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<img class="border" src="/images/spam-confirm.jpg" alt="Confirm the removal of SPAM referrals">
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1. The removal starts and should be finished in a few seconds or at least a few minutes. Just keep the page open and wait.
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> You can also remove SPAM based on the page. This is uncommon, but if you want you can ask us for help or try it yourself. Use this URL (`https://simpleanalytics.com/clean?hostname=example.com&type=path&path=/page`) and replace `example.com` with your domain and `/page` with the page you like to remove. It will ask you to confirm because removing.

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