Having Problems Blocking Referrer Spam

by panditmarketing

Posted: 10 years ago 7 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I have been trying to stop sites like trafficmonetize.org and 4webmasters.org htting my site and messing up my traffic stats.

I have followed the advice of this article to try and block them.

What Is Referrer Spam & How Can You Block It

As I am worried about my site slowing down, I followed the 2nd option in the article and pasted this in the .htaccess File. I went into my cpanel file manager and made the changes, but it hasn't made any difference.

I don't know if it's because I pasted it in the wrong place maybe?

Help appreciated.

#blocking #problems #referrer #spam

ksmusselman

10 years ago

If you're using WordPress, you can try this method instead:

How To Block and Blacklist Bad IPs via .htaccess...

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panditmarketing

10 years ago

Originally Posted by ksmusselman

If you're using WordPress, you can try this method instead:

How To Block and Blacklist Bad IPs via .htaccess - Works On Any Apache Server | WP Learning Lab - YouTube

Thanks for posting. I'll check out the video.

I was just chatting to someone on Facebook about this and I have already amended some code, so that may do the trick.

Thanks again.

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kevinenrique

9 years ago

That's a great article, it would be helpful to post the changes you did as it might help someone with the same problem in the future. Also let us know if it worked.

I'm having the same problem with spammers messing up my analytics, specially on prosper202. I will be replacing Google Analytics with Piwik as it has the filter integrated (besides the fact that I will not have Google creeping into my analytics)

Thanks.

Originally Posted by panditmarketing

Thanks for posting. I'll check out the video.

I was just chatting to someone on Facebook about this and I have already amended some code, so that may do the trick.

Thanks again.

Thanks

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vishwa 9 years ago

I am using this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-block-referrer-spam/ for my blog to stop spam referrer. Hope it will also help you.
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designbala 9 years ago

You can blog through Google Analytics. Go to Admin -> Click All Filters -> New Filter.. Then enter which website you want to blog.
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Brent Stangel 9 years ago

Clicky analytics blocks them for me.
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kevinenrique 9 years ago

Piwik has a list in Github with many of these spammer websites:
https://github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist

It can be used with G Analytics the way designbala stated on post #6.
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