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I see this referral in my sessions. However i've applied a filter to exclude it. 

www.Get-Free-Traffic-Now.com / referral

The filter is even at the top, so i don't know why it is not working:

And this is different than the suggested similar question, in the sense that this question uses a filter inside Google Analytics. The other question talks about modifying the hosting.

Here you can see my set up for the filter:

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This is what i see:

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  • I can't help you with your specific problem, but that looks like an awfully broad pattern that may exclude legitimate visits, as well. – Pekka May 19 '15 at 18:05
  • I've tried to be more specific but nevertheless it still appeared. Any hint is welcome. – Omar Gonzales May 19 '15 at 18:25
  • possible duplicate of [How to Block Spam Referrers like darodar.com from Accessing Website?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27666318/how-to-block-spam-referrers-like-darodar-com-from-accessing-website) – nyuen May 19 '15 at 20:10

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First don't use .*Get.* as a filter pattern, any referral with get in the name will be filtered.

Second you should use Campaign Source instead as filter field of Referral

For the file pattern add something like this

Get-Free-Traffic-Now.com|event-tracking.com|free-share-buttons.com

You can keep adding spammers up until 255 characters. If you want to prevent ghost spam instead of adding it to a filter every time you can use a Valid hostname filter, you can find more information here

https://stackoverflow.com/a/28354319/3197362

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  • You don't need to put www at the beginning? Thanks i'll try this. – Omar Gonzales May 21 '15 at 18:37
  • No, it's not needed, in fact, you don't even need to put the `.com` at the end since these names are too specific already. – Carlos Escalera Alonso May 21 '15 at 20:13
  • So it is like using: ".*name-of-referral.*" .* captures anything at the beggining and at the end. right? – Omar Gonzales May 21 '15 at 20:17
  • yes that's right, but you don't need to add `.*`, GA simplifies the REGEX. so basically what you put between the bars `|` will match anything containing it. So be careful because if the name of the referral is common for example `www.button.info` then is better the whole referrer. – Carlos Escalera Alonso May 21 '15 at 20:49