How to stop some spam traffic on your website
hello everyone
I had this horrible experience which I want to share here. I'm sure this is not particular to me. Some other website owners who care about traffic might have been hit by this 'dark cloud'.
Few days back, I checked my google analytics stats and discovered a sudden rush of traffic from one site to my domain. My hairs stood straight and my ears flipped. I thought I was in for some "big chop" but when I clicked to view details... I was shocked.
Over 2000 visits from one site ? but... horrible!
These are the stats details:
Avg. Time on Site 00:00:01
% New Visits 100.00%
Bounce Rate 100.00%
MAMAMIYA!!!!!!!
Simply, I can't bare this so what I did was open my .htacces file and dropped this lines:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} name-of-spam-domain\.net [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
This stopped the traffic 100%. I don't know if this is best but my genuine traffic was returned and I think I'm happy.
If you experience a similar issue, you may want to use that same code.
NB: for linux servers
I had this horrible experience which I want to share here. I'm sure this is not particular to me. Some other website owners who care about traffic might have been hit by this 'dark cloud'.
Few days back, I checked my google analytics stats and discovered a sudden rush of traffic from one site to my domain. My hairs stood straight and my ears flipped. I thought I was in for some "big chop" but when I clicked to view details... I was shocked.
Over 2000 visits from one site ? but... horrible!
These are the stats details:
Avg. Time on Site 00:00:01
% New Visits 100.00%
Bounce Rate 100.00%
MAMAMIYA!!!!!!!
Simply, I can't bare this so what I did was open my .htacces file and dropped this lines:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} name-of-spam-domain\.net [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
This stopped the traffic 100%. I don't know if this is best but my genuine traffic was returned and I think I'm happy.
If you experience a similar issue, you may want to use that same code.
NB: for linux servers