Semalt skewing Google Analytics results

by ChantalVanderlaan

Posted: 12 years ago 7 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I'm assuming many of you are seeing semalt under referrals in your Google Analytics results. It's becoming a real pain in the butt and it's skewing all my stats.

I've researched different ways of excluding them from the results with different filters but now Semalt has come up with a new way of showing up under referrals. They are using random subdomains such as:

23.semalt.com
67.semalt.com
328.semalt.com

This makes it impossible to have a filter to exclude these results because every day they change....

Does anyone have a solution to eliminating Semalt once and for all from Google Analytics results?

#analytics #google #results #semalt #skewing

trevord92

12 years ago

Nothing reliable that I've found so far.

And asking them to remove a site from their endless crawling only seems to work intermittently as several sites I've used that form for suddenly get re-crawled.

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ChantalVanderlaan

12 years ago

Originally Posted by trevord92

I've tried that too and it doesn't work for me

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onlineleben

12 years ago

Originally Posted by trevord92

Worked for all of my sites so far.
Submitted my sites on their removal page and it stopped visiting within the next 24 hours.
If not, I resubmitted and then it worked.

I am semalt-free for 2 weeks now

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Brent Stangel 12 years ago

It was discussed here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-spam-now.html. Maybe something in that thread that will help.
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- ChantalVanderlaan 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Brent Stangel
  
  It was discussed here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-spam-now.html. Maybe something in that thread that will help.
  
  Sounds like the Wordfence Security plugin may be helpful...thanks!
  
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vishwa 12 years ago

Since I have use wordfence, I have blocked their entire ip range which gives me a big relief. Now Their is no semalt in my analytics.
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gaio 12 years ago

Add the following lines to your .htaccess file. It will block any referrer that contains "semalt.com".

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} semalt\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]

More info on blocking by referrer can be found here:
Deny visitors by referrer - Apache .htaccess Guide, Tutorials & Examples
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