I have several websites that get daily around 5% of visits from spam referrers. There is one strange things I noticed about this referrers: they show in Google Analytics, but I cannot see them in my custom designed table where I insert all the visitors to the site, so I think that they only manipulate the GA code, never reaching the site itself.
If you follow their link, they redirect you to some affiliates link.
I don't know whether they have impact on my SEO/SERP, but I would like to get rid of them. May I do that via htaccess
file?
One peculiar aspect is that I get visitors from different forum like pages. E.g.: forum.topic221122.darodar.com
, forum.topic125512.darodar.com
etc., so I would like to block the full darodar.com
domain.
Besides darodar.com
, there are also econom.co
and iloveitaly.co
that are bothering my stats. Can I block them all from htaccess
?
This blog post suggests that the spam referrers manipulate Google Analytics and never actually visit your site, so blocking them is pointless. Google Analytics offers filtering if you want to mitigate fake site hits.