It's called "Referrer Spam". They want you to click on the links and visit their site(s).
Type: Posts; User: Michael Martinez
It's called "Referrer Spam". They want you to click on the links and visit their site(s).
That does not in any way stop the fake traffic coming from SEMalt. It only tells Google Analytics to filter traffic from the reports (from a single domain). Your Website still receives the traffic...
One of my newsletter subscribers reported to me this week that when he moved his site to a new hosting company (a large one but I'm not ready to name them) the .htaccess code above stopped working. ...
Many people have reported that the SEMalt crawling increases after they submit their sites to the block list. Under no circumstances should anyone ever attempt to interact with the company in any...
We have tested the following code on more than 100 Websites (both WordPress and static installations). So far it appears to be working and it hasn't broken anything. I tested several potential...
After several weeks of stumbling around in proposed .htaccess-based solutions I may have come across the fix we all need. I am testing it on about 70 Websites. I have to wait a few days to be sure...
I am testing a new set of .htaccess directives. I installed them on nearly 100 sites this weekend. Should know in a few more days if I have figured this out.
It's been spotty across the board for us. On some sites we're only using minimal code and the crawlers have stopped appearing in our analytics. On other sites we're having to use 3-4 variations on...
If you have not seen fake referral traffic from SEMalt, SaveTubeVideo, SRecorder, Kambasoft, or other weird sites in your referral data, consider yourself lucky. A botnet is powering these fake...