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I am noticing the same thing....

Rankings that were previously in the top 3 have now totally fallen off the map and are out of the top 50.

Usually I expect to see gradual increases or decreases, but I have no idea what would cause such a dramatic change.

I have not done anything with "Google Places/Local" recently, so at least in my case I can rule that out as the driving force.

There's also no notice or warnings in Webmaster Tools.

Very strange, indeed! And now a good way to kick start 2013!

Let me know if you come up with any other theories or remedies because I'd love to hear them.

Cheers!

Does anyone have any ideas?

I'm still totally stumped!

Does anyone have any ideas?

Having this silly "localhost:4444" entry is skewing all of my numbers and no matter what I try, it won't seem to filter it out.

Any help is very much appreciated!

Thanks!

Thanks Mike.

At least I know I'm not alone in being totally & completely baffled!

Hopefully someone else can give me a push in the right direction.

Cheers!

Putting the filter pattern of "localhost" did not work... sadly.

I still see "localhost:4444 / referral" in my reports.

There must be a way to filter this out.... I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem (or at least I hope not!)

Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance.

There was no real reason I wasn't just trying localhost.

I just thought we needed some other parameters on there... but clearly those weren't working.

I just updated the filter now and I'll check tomorrow's data to see if the answer was really this simple.

Thanks!

Unfortunately that did not work.

I still see this in my referral reports:

localhost:4444 / referral

Just to confirm, the filter I set is:

Filter Name: Exclude localhost
Filter Type: Custom Filter > Exclude
Filter Field: Referral
Filter Pattern: localhost*
Case Sensitive: No

Any other ideas? I'll try anything.

If I put localhost then I get a "Regular expression is invalid" error.

I'll put: localhost*

I'll watch it for a couple days and see what happens.

Thanks!

Thanks for the link... this is kind of what I had followed earlier, but it still doesn't work.

In my original question you can see the current filter I have setup.

Yet, for some reason this is not blocking what I need since I still see "localhost:4444 / referral" in my reports.

Any other ideas?

Hello All,

In Google Analytics I see a bunch of traffic coming from "localhost:4444 / referral".

I had tried once before to create a filter to exclude this traffic source, but obviously I did it wrong since it's still showing up.

Here is the filter I have currently:

Filter Name: Exclude localhost
Filter Type: Custom filter > Exclude
Filter Field: Referral
Filter Pattern:  .localhost:4444.
Case Sensitive: No

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong and give me a push in the right direction?

Thanks in advance!

I am noticing the same thing....

Rankings that were previously in the top 3 have now totally fallen off the map and are out of the top 50.

Usually I expect to see gradual increases or decreases, but I have no idea what would cause such a dramatic change.

I have not done anything with "Google Places/Local" recently, so at least in my case I can rule that out as the driving force.

There's also no notice or warnings in Webmaster Tools.

Very strange, indeed! And now a good way to kick start 2013!

Let me know if you come up with any other theories or remedies because I'd love to hear them.

Cheers!