Questions tagged [referrer-spam]
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How to automatically filter spam referrals in google analytics
There are a lot of very good articles and answers out there that explain (in detail) why we get spam referrals messing up Analytics data. Example results: how to automatically stop spam traffic in google analytics
What I want is a definitive…
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Apache .htaccess RewriteRule to send semalt referrer spambots back to source
Referrer spam is a huge problem in my analytics right now and I have been combating it for months.
I'm aware of the botnet discussions surrounding semalt.com (and other referral spammers). I'm also aware that a some of the referral spam is likely…
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blocking subdomains spam referrals using .htaccess
I want to block the referrals for the subdomains and the main domain of the spam bots and hence am using the following code.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([^.]+\.)*semalt\.com [OR,NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}…
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How to corectly block referrer spam IPs?
I am having some trouble with referrer spam on several sites, and I am trying to block the IP of those sites. I used domaintools to check the IP address and use that to block incoming traffic. However, according to Google Analytics, they are still…
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