{"id":7108,"date":"2015-10-04T08:34:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T08:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostileblog.com\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2020-05-30T21:46:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T01:46:01","slug":"block-referrer-spam-without-plugin-and-google-analytics-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnaghan.com\/block-referrer-spam-without-plugin-and-google-analytics-filter\/","title":{"rendered":"Block referrer spam without plugin and Google Analytics filter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the last few months, my Google Analytics account has started showing a lot of referrer spam sites like SexyAli, free-<span id=\"urn:enhancement-db5de454-2a6c-e3a4-8085-132f2da15a6f\" class=\"textannotation wl-thing disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/social\">social<\/span>-buttons, Semalt, etc. The spammers are screwing up my GA reports. I have some <span id=\"urn:enhancement-093fe0f0-ea52-dda7-ea21-9f59313a84f2\" class=\"textannotation wl-thing disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/website\">websites<\/span>. Tho site with 1000s of visitors is not affected but for my&nbsp;new portals, the referrers are causing high bounce rate which makes the report data confusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some referrers seem to be&nbsp;attacking <span id=\"urn:enhancement-e69c2f58-8188-8212-a134-5be626a55836\" class=\"textannotation wl-creative-work disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/wordpress\">WordPress<\/span> sites as the real-time reports show 30+ visitors (from spam sites) from various parts of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tried blocking <span id=\"urn:enhancement-33f1acde-068b-fd4f-0ea3-50bfc1901482\" class=\"textannotation wl-thing disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/email_spam\">spam<\/span> referrers IP address from the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-53c8c11d-a6c0-ea11-aa19-a32eecd28661\" class=\"textannotation wl-thing disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/web_hosting_service\">hosting<\/span> account control panel, but sometimes, this didn&#8217;t work. I searched for some tutorials for the same on Google.com, and I found a solution in the form of Google Analytics filter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnaghan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/referral-spam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"925\" height=\"395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carnaghan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/referral-spam.jpg\" alt=\"Block referrer spam without plugin and Google Analytics filter\" class=\"wp-image-1209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carnaghan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/referral-spam.jpg 925w, https:\/\/www.carnaghan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/referral-spam-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carnaghan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/referral-spam-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carnaghan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/referral-spam-100x43.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.carnaghan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/referral-spam-864x369.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 925px) 100vw, 925px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The filters are powerful, and they support limited sites at a time. For example, each filter will have a domain, characters limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think, the filter will exclude the reports from m showing them, but they&#8217;re stored in your account records. If you accidentally delete it, you&#8217;ll have to setup the filters again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This best possible way to stop <span id=\"urn:enhancement-255bc1dd-9772-3085-6d16-a9ac1c52df0e\" class=\"textannotation wl-thing disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/referral_marketing\">referral<\/span> spam would be using the htaccess <span id=\"urn:enhancement-77211b3d-9b2a-0441-943e-5f7148cb5600\" class=\"textannotation wl-thing disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/computer_file\">file<\/span>. The 1st <span id=\"urn:enhancement-1acee201-f525-56bb-fe81-0b3aa580ccd6\" class=\"textannotation wl-thing disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/computer_file\">file<\/span> that any spam bot will access is the htaccess. Thus you can use it to block sites like SexyAli, free-floating-buttons, quality market zone from accessing your <span id=\"urn:enhancement-f35ec78f-c997-eb73-f848-8839f3963832\" class=\"textannotation wl-thing disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/blog\">blog<\/span>&nbsp;and appearing in GA reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Stevie-Ray\/apache-nginx-referral-spam-blacklist\/blob\/master\/.htaccess\">This list on GitHub<\/a> has a full list of referrer spam sites along with htaccess rules to block them. You just have to open your <span id=\"urn:enhancement-8d49730d-1d4b-a73d-64e5-5adeda9d01d9\" class=\"textannotation wl-creative-work disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/cpanel\">CPanel<\/span>, access root directory of your site and paste it at the bottom or top of the htaccess <span id=\"urn:enhancement-f3f951e1-13b2-33a3-a7cf-eb38982bebba\" class=\"textannotation wl-thing disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/computer_file\">file<\/span> to get rid of ghost spam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to use any <span id=\"urn:enhancement-bacbd273-c1de-018a-86d7-f01a154dbca3\" class=\"textannotation wl-creative-work disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/wordpress\">WordPress<\/span> <span id=\"urn:enhancement-0d0147bc-f443-f0d8-d167-b85a910457dc\" class=\"textannotation wl-thing disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/plug-in_computing\">plugin<\/span>, nor you have to purchase premium security services to get rid of <span id=\"urn:enhancement-63676615-def1-a9de-fde6-a82a4be8b4b6\" class=\"textannotation wl-thing disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/analytics\">Analytics<\/span> referral spams. Simply bookmark the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-0ab9e2e2-de4f-605e-d8fa-abee10850187\" class=\"textannotation wl-creative-work disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/github\">GitHub<\/span> <span id=\"urn:enhancement-dc79e2f1-14ea-35ff-c404-b79890aa233f\" class=\"textannotation wl-thing disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/hyperlink\">link<\/span> we&#8217;ve shared above and do visit the <span id=\"urn:enhancement-fbc5cac2-5d0a-a3ba-f187-5ec369e05349\" class=\"textannotation wl-thing disambiguated\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl01166\/entity\/uniform_resource_locator\">URL<\/span> once or twice a week to get updated list of spam websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Must Read: <a href=\"\/best-free-wordpress-spam-blocker-plugins\/\">Best free WordPress spam blocker plugins (2016)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result will be instant. 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