Analytics Spammer Can Haz Humors: Who Else?
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Yeah... the traffic is annoying. But seeing this (attached image) in my GA was pretty funny. Obviously it was only a couple hits. I thought it was pretty cute in comparison to the other actions.
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- so my guess is it is still coming from the referral spam because once Google or Moz any crawler that
- a tool that can assimilate keywords with inbound links anchor text and context it is normally a sign of
- referral spam. Hopefully we're not into a new era of something new.
- Try blocking everything via analytics and a WAF I recommend Incapsula, Distill Networks & Sucuri WAF
Sucuri is awesome And only $9 a Month https://sucuri.net/website-firewall/
I Hope this helps,
Tom
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here's a block list I added more so here's the original please add anything that is bad to it.
https://github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist
https://github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist/edit/master/spammers.txt
https://github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist/pull/4
17.23.7.14427
2.semalt.com
3.semalt.com
31.semalt.com
43.semalt.com
432.semalt.com
4webmasters.org
518.semalt.com
7makemoneyonline.com
885.semalt.com
889.semalt.com
98.semalt.com
acads.net
anticrawler.org
best-seo-offer.com
best-seo-solution.com
bestwebsitesawards.com
billigetask.com
blackhatworth.com
buttons-for-website.com
buttons-for-your-website.com
buy-cheap-online.info
customer.worldstream.nl
darodar.com
digg.commusicas.baixar-musicas-gratis.com
econom.co
forum20.smailik.org
free-share-buttons.com
get-free-traffic-now.com
ghdbutikk.com
googlsucks.com
hulfingtonpost.com
humanorightswatch.org
ilovevitaly.com
kabbalah-red-bracelets.com
kambasoft.com
make-money-online.7makemoneyonline.com
makemoneyonline.com
masterseek.com
musicas.baixar-musicas-gratis.com
o-o-6-o-o.com
priceg.com
ranksonic.info
ranksonic.org
savetubevideo.com
semalt.com
semalt.semalt.com
semalt1.semalt.com
semalt1ssss.semalt.com
sexyteens.hol.es
social-buttons.com
theguardlan.com
tnsko.com
www.billigeskosalgs.com
www.brand-onlinerabat.dk
www.deep-groove-ball-bearings.com
www.dksko.com
www.ghdhairbutikk.com
www.hovedtelefonersalg.com
www.kobsko.dk
www.semalt.semalt.com
www3.cadillacnews.comsemalt Is a corporation and therefore I am taking my time adding up damages that they have inflicted.
All the best,
Tom
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Thanks, but it's just some entrance keyword data. Kind of funny at that. Sure, the spam can increase. But I can set a segment as well as any other. I have extra profiles for filtering fun, if things get 'pucker worthy'.
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watch out as those couple of hits can become read the carelessly large I have a client that had 17,000 spam hits in one day.
My best advice is to follow the steps shown in the photograph I posted below yours and in this URL
- http://moz.com/blog/how-to-stop-spam-bots-from-ruining-your-analytics-referral-data
- http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2015/03/19/eliminating-dumb-ghost-referral-traffic/
- http://www.analyticsedge.com/2014/12/removing-referral-spam-google-analytics/
the ghost referral spam is the worst it's constantly updating and if you're getting it now prepare to block
I hope this helps,
Tom
PS larger versions of the images
your image http://i.imgur.com/1WnZK0p.png ( was missing .png it needs the file format to show up)
how to eliminate large image http://i.imgur.com/NrTe8W2.png
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