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Hello Brian,

I think you meant you added an IP to the blacklist, right?
What's the exact value you saved?

If you want to test the GeoBlock feature you can try searching on Google a web proxy for such country: usually they exists for the main countries.

Google Analytics shows the domain name of the referer. In other words it tells you which site has linked back to you. Let me try an example.

Alice has the domain name alice.com.

Malroy has the domain name malroy.com. On his site he has a link to alice.com/foobar.html.

Bob is a casual user who known neither Alice nor Malroy. He stumbles upon Malroy's link and clicks on it. Therefore he visits alice.com with the referer set to malroy.com.

If Alice blocks the IP address of malroy.com she won't be blocking Bob. Bob's visit will go through just fine and Alice's Google Analytics account will display malroy.com as a referer. That's because Bob's visit comes from Bob's IP, not from Malroy's. The referer only tells you where Bob was before he clicked a link to Alice's site, NOT where Bob himself is.

It's actually quite simple to grasp. It's simple English, even for me (I'm not a native speaker):

Visitor: he who comes by and views your site.

Referer (Referrer if you prefer proper English spelling): which site the visitor was before he clicked a link to your site, i.e. who referred the visitor to your site.

Yes, the same thing applies for GeoBlocking. Remember that you are seeing in Google Analytics is the referrer, i.e. which site hosts the link your visitors clicked. All IP-related features in Admin Tools care about the IP of your visitor. It's perfectly possible for, let's say, a Australian user to click on the link of the Russian site which takes them to your Australian site. Therefore they are not blocked by GeoBlocking because you permit Australian visitors.

You're welcome, Brian!