analytics referral spam

[grem]

Anybody else getting referral spam showing in their analytics data?

The most popular one is social-buttons.com

[golfbettingsystem]

Yep, loads. best-seo-offer and buttons-for-your-website are flavour of the month today

[-Shay-]

Yep, loads. best-seo-offer and buttons-for-your-website are flavour of the month today

Same

[GamblingEnthusiast]

Same here.... Do they actually visit the site or does IT just register in analytics ?


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[wettFORM.AT]

Yes I get them every day but some weeks ago I spent some time to update my filter so my stats are back to normal. Theses referral links does not hurt your site but they mess up your analytics data so try to add a filter. This should help.

[mojo]

I've seen the seo button on my regular tracker. This one, xxdomination dot ml, is on analytics which is new to me.

[Simmo!]

Yep, loads. best-seo-offer and buttons-for-your-website are flavour of the month today

Not seen the buttons one but the other is one of 2 new semalt competitor analysis domains (best-seo-solution.com being the other). Like semalt.com, they don't advertise themselves as spiders so they appear in (and gum up) your stats. Also annoying are the crawlers on AppEngine. You can block them in .htaccess thus:

#### BLOCK SCRAPERS ###
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AppEngine [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} semalt\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} best-seo-solution\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} best-seo-offer\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

[sweetbet]

I get these all the time, esp. the buttons for your site link.

[wettFORM.AT]

yes buttons are always the most of the links.

[slotplayer]

yes, I saw those yesterday and added rules to htaccess to block them. below is the code I grabbed, no idea if its done correctly but the author/article seemed reliable.

# Block visitors referred from semalt.com
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*buttons-for-website\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*semalt\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*simple-share-buttons\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://(site[0-9]+\.)?social-buttons\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>

[vardan]

Hello, the same problem here.

I've found this code, but I am not sure if it is safe and correct:

# BEGIN BLOCK SPAM REFERRALS
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (?:savetubevideo|srecorder|semalt|kambasoft|ilovev italy|iloveitaly|net\.hts|priceg|darodar|econom|bu ttons\-for\-website|blackhatworth|hulfingtonpost|adviceforum)\ .((?!\.).)*?$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
# END BLOCK SPAM REFERRALS

Would you advise to use this code(or which one from the codes posted on this thread) and where exactly add it in the .htaccess file?

Thanks.

[Lucky Bob]

I've been getting insane amounts of referrer spam.

I've found these two sources helpful in dealing with both referrer spam and crawler spam. (Referrer Spam is dealt with using GA Filters and Crawler Spam is dealt with using the .htaccess edits.)

http://blog.raventools.com/stop-referrer-spam

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackha...analytics.html

Cheers,

[wettFORM.AT]

It gets worse from week to week but the filters help. Anyway I can still see hits on my page from undefined countries. Not that much but they still show up in my reports and I hate it.

[PROFRBcom]

Yep, loads. best-seo-offer and buttons-for-your-website are flavour of the month today

Yup, these guys have been on me for a while. I also get this "vitaly rules google" **** in my analytics reports too blah!

[Moonlight Cat]

Here good article, http://ads-blocker.com/block-referral-spam/

[golfbettingsystem]

Also seeing an increasing number of broken links pointing to my sites on GWT from spammy referring sites, more than the normal youtube scrapers etc. One I found yesterday was a spyware site so be careful if you check the links highlighted on GWT manually.

[vardan]

Here good article, http://ads-blocker.com/block-referral-spam/

Very useful tutorial with .htaccess banning code generator.
Thanks.

[PROFRBcom]

Many thanks Cat, that is exactly what we needed!

[GamblingEnthusiast]

Someone getting a huge amount of "direct" spam traffic from USA?


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[-Shay-]

Someone getting a huge amount of "direct" spam traffic from USA?


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