Referral Exclusions in Google Analytics

Example: You have a Google Ads campaign running. A total of €300 was spent and the turnover is €3,000. In Analytics you can see that €1,000 is from Google Ads and €2,000 is from Referrals. When you open the referrals list, you will see all possible banks, such as 3dsecure.deutsche-bank.de and mastercardsecurecode.sparkassen-kreditkarten.de . This has to do with the fact that someone paid by credit card, Paypal or similar during the order and therefore left the web shop for a while, only to come back to the thank you page later. Google Analytics assumes that this visitor z. B. comes from the Deutsche Bank website, which is not correct.

How can I exclude referrals?

If you go to Administration -> Tracking Info -> List of Referral Exclusions in Google Analytics, you can add these exclusions one by one. However, this is a tedious task, because there are dozens of referral websites in the German-speaking area – internationally there are many hundreds.
As a marketing agency, we have to set this up for every webshop and it’s quite frustrating. Fortunately, there is a practical solution: go to the Realhe.ro website and save the “GA Import domain exclusions 2.0” button in your bookmarks bar. Then go to the Referral Exclusions in Google Analytics. You can then click the button on your bookmarks bar, copy and paste the list. Then all you have to do is click “Import” and you’re done!

List of referrals to exclude

3d-secure-code.de
3dsecure.bw-bank.de
3dsecure-cardprocess.de
3dsecure.deutsche-bank.de
3dsecure.icscards.nl
aacsw.3ds.verifiedbyvisa.com
abnamro.nl
acs.airplus.com
acs1.3ds.modirum.com
acs2-3dsecure.cm-cic.com
adyen.com
arcot.com
bankieren.ideal.ing.nl
barclays.co.uk
bcr.girogate.be
belfius.be
belgium-3dsecure-uvg.wlp-acs.com
belgium-3dsecure.wlp-acs.com
belgium-uvj-3dsecure.wlp-acs.com
belgium-uvp-3dsecure.wlp-acs.com
betalen.rabobank.nl
bnpparibas.com
buckaroo.nl
deref-web-02.de
diensten.asnbank.nl
diensten.regiobank.nl
diensten.snsbank.nl
icepay.eu
ideal.asnbank.nl
ideal.bunq.com
ideal.ing.nl
ideal.knab.nl
ideal.moneyou.nl
ideal.regiobank.nl
ideal.snsbank.nl
ideal.triodos.nl
ideal.vanlanschot.com
iscards.nl
kbc.be
mastercardsecurecode.sparkassen-kreditkarten.de
pay.mollie.nl
mollie.com
multisafepay.com
pay.multisafepay.com
payment-web.sips-atos.com
payment-web.omnikassa.rabobank.nl
pay1.de
paypal.com
paypal.de
payv2.multisafepay.com
secure7.arcot.com
securecode.abnamro.nl
securesuite.co.uk
secureyou3d.ing.be
sips-atos.com
sofort.com
sparda.wlp-acs.com
threedssvc.pay1.de
tpeweb1.paybox.com
tsys.arcot.com
verifiedbyvisa.barclays.co.uk
verifiedbyvisa.com
visa.com
wlp-acs.com
zendesk.com
These are the most common referral websites including German, Dutch, Belgian and English banks.
If you come across new foreign sources, you can add them to your list later. Feel free to send us an e-mail or call us and let us know about this referral. Then we add them to the list above. Thanks in advance!
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