How To Identify (And Remove) Bots From Google Analytics 4

[@learningmania3404]

it helped me a lot. Thanks a lot... Love from Bihar, India...

[@Rinzler.18]

You Are A Legend! This video is niche but super helpful

[@DataDrivenU]

"Legend" thank you :D

[@rafalageo]

Hey man, IDK if you still see this comment section. I have a problem that the spam bot traffic is coming from Direct sources, so I cannot identify user source. What could I do?

[@DataDrivenU]

One thing you can do when the bot traffic reaches your GA4 database is to identify it (awkward screen resolution OR geolocation OR duration OR particular event frequency etc etc) and try to keep it out of your reports by filtering

[@ZoranaPolic]

very useful video, thank you!

[@DataDrivenU]

You're welcome!

[@stm1260]

So what should I do next after I've filtered bots? How do I prevent them from clicking my ads and spending my money?

[@gabegarcia2017]

Is there a tutorial to create the custom dimension eng_time_msec?

[@gabegarcia2017]

I see it. Thanks!

[@cloggednose323]

can you have a tutorial in excluding audience from other parts of the world?

[@DataDrivenU]

try it yourself - go to admin >audiences, click create a custom audience and for exclusion condition choose Country matches "xyz"... once done, pls come back tell us how did it go!

[@cloggednose323]

@@DataDrivenU Hi. I did tried it before I commented here but seems not working with the "contains" filter. I added a new one now based on your suggestion. Thank you. I will come back next week to give an update. Also why is the delete button not working? I wanted to delete the custom Audience I made yesterday.

[@DataDrivenU]

perhaps you don't have high enough access level?@@cloggednose323

[@cloggednose323]

@@DataDrivenU Hi. Unfortunately, ther are still bot traffic registering 30 bots a day :(

[@cloggednose323]

@@DataDrivenU I am using the admin user account

[@user-rb1rz6oq5n]

i filtered using Country but still bots are coming, I need Help

[@DataDrivenU]

how can you be sure that all your bots are coming from the country you filtered out?

[@stm1260]

So what should I do next after I've filtered bots? How do I prevent them from clicking my ads and wasting my money?

[@DataDrivenU]

bots that click ads happens outside of GA4... you can always check out software solutions for the problem