Weird referral data. Spam?
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Hi all,
a few of my sites are suffering from referral spam. I read a couple of articles here on how to exclude them from your traffic using htaccess but today I was going through some referral stats of the company I work for and I noticed a lot of referral traffic coming from
I didn't find any article telling me this is spam, so it could also be an intranet of one of our clients where they are sending their employees to our application.
Anybody a clue what this could be?
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Thanks Tim,
found out that the domain is registered by a partner of us. They have several webpages where their clients can signup for our service using a single sign on. This is causing the spike in referral traffic, but as it's only a certain call their doing they must not be included in our stats so need to set up some GA filters.
Cheers,
Joris -
Have you done a who.is search on the domain to see if that provides any clues. You may then be able to find out if it is a client etc.
http://who.is/whois/ssosecure.com
I have not heard of it from a spam referral point of view, but that does not mean it is not a new one on the scene. To remove this referral traffic filter your analytics by hostname to remove it if needed.
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