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Based on article dates it would seem this spam hasn't been around all that long, certainly I hadn't seen it before December. I imagine people would click the li
by wlkr 12y ago
Based on article dates it would seem this spam hasn't been around all that long, certainly I hadn't seen it before December. I imagine people would click the link because it's the source of an unexpected spike in perceived traffic. Certainly spammers are testing the waters with this, I suppose we'll soon know how successful it is from the number of copycats and Googles eventual response.
- mansr 12y agoReferer spam has been around almost as long as web analytics. What's new is that they found a way to infiltrate Google Analytics, which previously avoided them somehow. I'm surprised Google hasn't come up with a countermeasure yet.
- SyneRyder 12y agoThe SEMalt spam has been around since at least June 2014, I got incensed enough to block them from my server and write up how to block them on Apache servers: http://kohanikin.com/2014/filtering-semalt-referrer-spam.html http://kohanikin.com/2014/filtering-semalt-referrer-spam.htm... This post seems to describe a new technique where spammers never even visit your site in the first place, spamming the Google Analytics servers directly.