Sunday, October 13, 2013

How to get rid of this New “Log or Referral Spam”?

Last week I had a discussion with friend regarding on some suspect full visits from different countries to his site. And we decided to filter that country from Analytics. But I think the problem is not yet solved.
Today I was checking my analytics and found a drastic difference in the bounce rate as well as visits. These visits are coming from www.seoanalyses.com and the visits are coming from different countries like Homyel, Gatchina, Odesa etc. Referrer spam also known as log spam or referrer bombing.




 I think “seoanalyses” is referring spam for two reasons.
  • ·         To get visit to their site from the people who are being spammed.
  • ·         If anyone has their server/website access logs public they may actually receive an indexed backlink.

This benefits the spammer because of the free link, which gives the spammer's site improved search engine ranking due to link-counting algorithms that search engines use.
We can’t stay without doing anything, coz if you check your analytics you can see that the bounce rate is 100% for these visits. And we are all aware that Google thinks a site with high bounce rate is a bad site.
I have a solution for this and I’m going to try this now,
Use htacess and block their visits
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (seoanalyses) [NC]
    RewriteRule .* - [F]
Please do not visit this site if you see this in Google Analytics.

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