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Ask HN: Why do I get so much traffic from random spam websites
Looking at my GA, I see I'm getting lots of traffic from random spammy websites. Do you know why this is?
e.g. floating-share-buttons.com and 100dollars-seo.com
How can I stop this?
Thanks,
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- jjgreen 11y agoThey hope you will publish the URLs (which you have) :-(
- MarkCole 11y agoThis is a technique called referrer spam. It's not real traffic just a way to get you as the owner of your site to visit theirs and "hopefully" purchase whatever they're trying to sell. If you wish to clean up your reports the only real way to do it is using filters[0]. Or optionally switching to a different analytics provider. [0] http://blog.analytics-toolkit.com/2015/howto-fix-ghost-traffic-spam-rubbish-google-analytics/ http://blog.analytics-toolkit.com/2015/howto-fix-ghost-traff...
- taigeair 11y agoI see. I can filter it out but is there any way to stop it? Thanks,
- tehwebguy 11y agoYes, you can filter it at the GA level or block it server-side but some of it can only be blocked at the GA level (because they are sending a fake ping to Google with your GA ID, rather than crawling your website)
- gesman 11y agoThey are actually hitting the website. I don't use GA (I wrote my own analytics) and that's what i see in logs.
- nsuQAEsax 11y agoReally long time ago I found a similar behavior in one of my sites. And it was because I had Awstats publicly accessible and they were interested in put their link in the page as it was indexed by Google.