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How can I stop deadlink checker from visiting my website?

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pmull last edited by

It is messing up my Google Analytics traffic reporting.

I can't figure out how to get it to stop.

Do I filter it out in GA?
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LoganRay @pmull last edited by

No problem, hope that helps. Not sure why they do that, maybe they just keep coming back to all sites that have had requests?
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pmull @LoganRay last edited by

Ok I will try that! Thank you!

Any idea why this happens? I used this website over a month ago.
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LoganRay last edited by

I would definitely filter that out in GA.

You could also disallow crawling through your robots.txt file:

User-agent: www.deadlinkchecker.com
Disallow: /

Be sure to add that _before _the wildcard User-agent directive, or it won't apply.
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