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Can I block blexhn30.webmeup.com. Or does it have anything to do with my Moz Local
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I am getting alot of hits from blexhn30.webmeup.com. My web host says it could be a web service. Is this part of moz local activity? Otherwise I want to block it. Have you seen this before??
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Thanks Adam!
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Thank you- just what I needed
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Hi Julie,
This post might help. It includes some solid advice and techniques to clean up your GA data: https://moz.com/blog/stop-ghost-spam-in-google-analytics-with-one-filter.
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My Google Analytics is full of this kind of stuff too. Is there an easy way to get rid of all of it?
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Hi Stephen,
Webmeup is a crawler unrelated to Moz. Feel free to block them if you'd like, though they don't seem to be nefarious in intent. They've listed info about their crawler and how best to block them here: http://webmeup-crawler.com/.
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