I am recently seeing an awful lot of traffic on my Google analytics from Russia.
My store is in USA.
More specifically they are coming through from 4webmasters.org. They only enter on my homepage & leave. They are from all regions of Russia. This is very annoying. I would like to block them some how and have Google disregard these from my web traffic. I do not think this is something that I should be worried about.
I am not sure if this is a coincidence or not, but all this seems to have started after I downloaded a free add-on from one of the 3rd party developers.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Just checked same here. Traffic more then double of usual, most RU.
I had this problem also. Blocked it in .htaccess. It's called referrer spam. Google it and you'll find the fixes.
[quote name='kingsleypress' timestamp='1432818718' post='216186']
I had this problem also. Blocked it in .htaccess. It's called referrer spam. Google it and you'll find the fixes.
[/quote]Thanks kingslypress.
If I understand the article that I read, I should put this code in my htaccess file…
[color=#333333]# Handle Spam bots[/color]
[color=#333333]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ([/color][color=#008000][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]4webmasters[/font][/color][color=#333333]) [NC,OR][/color]
[color=#333333]RewriteRule .* – [F][/color]
[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=3]Where [/size][/font][color=#008000][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]4webmasters [/font][/color]is the domain.they are using and I would do this for every additional spammer.
Would I place this code at the bottom of my htaccess file?
Yes, that is correct. I did this for semalt.com. I'm thinking I also did something in Google Analytics also, but can't remember now what that was. But it was something I found as a result of a Google search. It all worked, which was all that mattered to me at the time.
[quote name='kingsleypress' timestamp='1432822576' post='216194']
Yes, that is correct. I did this for semalt.com. I'm thinking I also did something in Google Analytics also, but can't remember now what that was. But it was something I found as a result of a Google search. It all worked, which was all that mattered to me at the time.
[/quote]Ok thanks, I will give it a try.
I could block it from google anylitics, but I think I will not so that I can keep an eye on it.
Nope.
It blocks everybody.
I probably have the domain in wrong position.
This is what I have for semalt:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} semalt.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
For some reason, It still blocks everybody.
Is there a particular location or line I should place this code?
As I understand it you won't fix it in your htaccess file although the will be plenty of advice saying do that.
These are not people going to your site they are fooling Google into saying they have. The only advice from google is putting a filter into your reports. Great if you want to spend the time doing that for every spammer. They need to fix it.