Does anyone know of a way to do a profile level filter to exclude all traffic if it enters the site via certain landing pages?

[ATIseo]

Does anyone know of a way to do a profile level filter to exclude all traffic if it enters the site via certain landing pages?

The problem I have is that we have several pages that are served to visitors of numerous other domains but are also served to visitors of our site. We end up with inflated Google Analytics numbers because people are viewing these pages from our partners' domains but never actually entering our site.

I've made an advanced segment that serves the purpose but I'd really like to filter it at the profile level so the numbers across the board are more accurate without having to apply an advanced segment to every report. The advanced segment excludes visits that hit these pages as landing pages but includes visits where people have come from other pages on our domain.

I know that you can do profile filters to exclude visits to pages or directories entirely but is there a way to filter them only if they are a landing pages? Any other creative thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

[ATIseo]

What do you think about adding some code to make the analytics code only fire if the referring domain is our domain?

[jesse-landry]

do what takeshi says. this is common practice for PPC campaigns, etc

[mikecp]

Yeah, I'm about 99% certain that this is not possible. Filters are essentially evaluated at the hit-level. There's no way to exclude a full session according to one hit characteristic.

[TakeshiYoung]

Why not just create a duplicate version of the page without the Google Analytics tracking? Include appropriate noindex/canonicals to ensure that the duplicate content doesn't get indexed.