Strange refferers

  • scot2283

    (@scot2283)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    Dear Hive Mind.

    I run my business website myself (www.g-s-s.org) despite being almost clueless about all things technological (and, I’m sure you will agree…it shows).

    In the jetpack stats I noticed some strange referrals, started with Semalt which, fine, I managed to block but now “makemoneyonline” and “buttons for website dot com”. I get decent enough traffic so it’s not playing merry hell with the bounce rate but even if it did I can’t find anything that says that is a bad thing for SERP/SEO.

    So my question is this, should I be concerned? If so, why and how do I stop it?

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  • Matt Knowles

    (@aestheticdesign)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    I was just reading up on Semalt this morning because I saw it mentioned on Twitter. The general consensus was to use .htaccess to block Semalt and all the domains they are using because they don’t follow the robots.txt directives, and they do totally distort the statistics since they don’t appear as a bot.

    I had bookmarked this link for further reading:

    http://logorrhoea.net/2014/01/how-to-block-semalt-com-referrer-traffic-using-htaccess/

    My general theory is if bots become annoying enough that I notice them and they’re not doing me any favors, I block them. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what they’re doing, but generally if they don’t play by the rules, they’re up to no good and I don’t want them visiting my sites.

    karjuna

    (@karjuna)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi there,
    i stopped semalt with the htacces-code. But … “makemoneyonline” is much harder. Every change i did in the htaccess (with “/” or “\” before or after the words, “*” before or after the dot) – it always seemed to be a new invitation for these bots to say “hello” on my sites. And they came from all parts of the world. And since the last two days i get visits in the same kind from the “russian federation”. They visit one site and jump of. I have no more ideas (using semalt-blocker Plugin, changing the htaccesss) what else could i do?? Do anybody have an idea?
    I don’t want them, too 🙂

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