Spam Traffic Coming To My Brand New Sites?!

Some of mine came from the similar sites traffic to my site. I think there is no problem.

NO PROBLEM FOR THIS

These are semalt, IE referrer spam. I'd suggest blocking them using htaccess using the code below:

Check the domains and do a bit of research when reviewing your logs.

I also receive this kinds of traffic to my website but I just ignore them. I wonder if it's harmful to SEO and I should start blocking them?

The htaccess file won't have effect in this referrer since it never reaches your site. I won't do any harm to your SEO but it will do to your stats so it is recommendable to filter them in GA. You can find more about this kind of Spam here: http://www.warriorforum.com/search-e...ml#post9976643

Have you considered using cloudflare to act as a buffer? They have a free account and it blocks threats to your site.

I got it for redirecting pages but the added benefit is speed and security as it filters crawlers, bots etc. no doubt there are users out there who can comment on this further than I can.

This is just referral spam but I would highly suggest blocking it somehow. I read articles about it not really affecting websites but I know from experience that it can if it gets out of control.

I had 2 niche sites that were on the front page of google and I just left them.. one day the rankings completely died and it was due to high amounts of referral spam. The spam was minimal then one week it just had a massive spike and took over everything. Images below

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Filtering it in analytics will only stop it showing up but you still need to block it from hitting the site. I use cloud flare and that blocks around 80% of it.

People say it won't affect SEO but they have probably never experienced that problem.... I have and it sucks, took months to rank my sites.

I had the same problem a couple of years back.

It ended up being the template that i was using. I downloaded it off of a sketchy third party site, which put all of these

links in the theme itself. I had to find a new theme to use, so i just ended up buying one for around $50.

I've had this before to. Just ignore this traffic.

Most of it is just junk traffic.

My website was hacked about four months ago and I had to turn to the forum for advice on how to fight the continual brute force tactics off. So know that this is extremely common and that there are bots running rampant everywhere these days causing general mayhem. If hackers can gain access to sites like JP Morgan, Amazon and Wal Mart....then none of us are truly safe.

What amazed me is how complex the hackers are these days. Within 48 hours, they added over 300 pages to my website in a directory I couldn't see, and then they built thousands of backlinks on reputable sites pointing to those articles....only the links weren't there. They were invisible, hidden in the code in other domains, yet the search engines were still counting them as legit. I actually had to disvow over 50 backlinks from PR7-9 sites with 90+ DA and PA plus thousands of others...but I was too scared to try and leave them there.

I got everything cleaned up though and told Google to de-index all the spam pages, but the complexity of the hack absolutely amazed me. I had the #1 ranking on Google for keyphrases like "uses of levitra" and this process was obviously 100% automated, so there are folks out there spending weeks and weeks designing these hack scams. I was both envious and disgusted at the same time...so much wasted talent out there.

I know a blogger who was ranking for number one spot on page one of Google for a very profitable key word. His competitors were trying to manipulate his rankings by fabricating low value links all over the place pointing to his site.

That's one of the worst things anyone can do to anyone else in the same niche or industry. Low down and dirty.

Karma always bites them in the ass though.

I'm going to just strip the child themes off all my sites and buy them. Or do you guys think that a script may have been run and could now be affecting deeper than this?

UPDATE: looks like all of this may just be ghost spam and only affects analytics data.

I did some research on the exact referers I'm having issues with and found plenty of other reporting the same all starting around this April.
Stop the Spam from Adult-sites Referrals in Google Analytics | Ohow

I would just use the disavow tool if this happened, you can't control which sites link to you, but you cn control whether their links will affect you or not.

Found this other article: Stopping Google Analytics ghost referral spam | Digital Next

Which kind of explains why I'm seeing this all of a sudden.

The analytics I use (Clicky) is constantly blocking these refer-spam sites. They keep popping up new ones so it's an ongoing thing.

I found an article on this issue regarding referral spam: http://phishlist.com/free-share-buttons-com/

These guys who are creating referral spam are hoping that you guys login into your Analytics account and make click through's to their site 'hoping' to get traffic from your curiosity.

It's bogus traffic from a bunch of retards that are hoping to get FREE Traffic and maybe sales that way.

This is how NOT to do Internet Marketing.

I think that these visitors can harm you. How: average time on site is 0 and noone wants 100% bonuce rate.

I have same problem with site like sharing buttons ,humlngton post, guardlan ba bla.. spamers...

Use these codes in your .htaccess file:

# Block Referrer Spam
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*best-seo-offer\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*free-share-buttons\.org/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [F,L]

These spam sites KILL your bounce rate so make sure you filter them immediately in GA.

Vitality was the one that started the ball rolling and now there are loads! Cheeky gits!