I Whitelisted One Country, but Still See Sessions From Other Countries. Why?

There are two common reasons:

Search engines and AI crawlers: Googlebot, BingBot, and certain AI shopping bots are intentionally allowed because blocking them could negatively affect your SEO and prevent services like Google from accessing your products for Shopping ads.

Blocked visitors: NoSpy records every visitor it processes, including visitors who are redirected or blocked. Seeing a session in your analytics doesn't necessarily mean that visitor was allowed through.

For advertising traffic, geographic targeting should also be configured directly within your Google Ads campaigns.

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