PayPal Visits Increase in Referral Traffic in Google Analytics

[SEO5Team]

We've noticed recently on an E-Commerce website that we manage that PayPal has recently shown a large increase in Referral Traffic on the website.

Is anyone having an experience with this and how can we block it? It seems like its counting the traffic that leave to PayPal to complete a purchase and then return to the site as increased traffic.

The increase started to occur around April 29, 2015 and I'm wondering if this has anything to do with any recent updates made by PayPal?

Any insight or other experiences would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Alick300]

Hi,

There are two ways to fix this isuue.

1>Add paypal.com in referral exclusion list in Google Analytics.

2>utm_nooverride=1

To know more please visit @ http://blog.analytics-toolkit.com/2015/payment-gateway-referrer-exclusions-google-analytics/

Hope this helps.

Thanks