I just completed an app for a client, and within the first week of registering with Google were seeing around 80% of our traffic from Semalt and buttons-for-websites.com.
Im seeing alot of solutions that involve blocking spammers on the HTaccess level, but since were hosted on Heroku and using rails im not really sure how to do this.
I guess my question is this: do I have to worry about these spammers? And if so how would I prevent access to my rails app?
thanks in advance
You probably don't have to worry about Semalt and the like, other than having them mess up your analytics, but that alone can be annoying.
There is a rack middleware gem for Rails that promises to block Semalt. However, it doesn't block other referral spam. Have a look at: https://github.com/mdippery/rack-block-semalt