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Ask HN: Facebook/abc.xyz referrals in Google Analytics, spam or real?
I have also got 2-3 referrals from http://abc.xyz :-D This is the parent company of Google! No way they are going to link to my Go language book. I also got spam links asking me to vote for Trump. How do I know which referrals are genuine? I know http://github.com referrals are real ones, but does facebook have any internal HN type tool maybe? where the book was posted?
my book's link is http://leanpub.com/antitextbookGo/; I also got "referral" from awesome-angularJS's github project, the funny thing is, why would angularJS have link to a Go language book which has exactly 0 lines of Angular in it. I am really confused since this is the first time I am using Google Analytics
- thewhitetulip 10y agoOP here; http://leanpub.com/antitextbookGo/ http://leanpub.com/antitextbookGo/ This is the link to which I have added Google analytics, #website; sessions abc.xyz ;20 facebook.com ;29 thenextweb.com/contributors/a-russian-trump-fan-is-celebrating-by-hacking-google-analytics/ ;23 buketeg.xyz ;10 85599130-1.compliance-don.xyz ;9 addons.mozilla.org/<>/iloveitaly; 10 There are countless such websites which clearly are fake, but few don't look like fake I am not naive to web development, I know how easy it is to do referral scam, I would like to know if this is a new type of scam or if I am new to it. (p.s. if people at fb really have internal HN where my book was published then it'd be cool)