Getting on Google Discover with Fake Referral Traffic

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Hello,

First I would like to ask everyone to not use AI to answer this or use general advice that's pointless - lately every post is just a swarm of this. Please discuss only if you have knowledge & experience with this, thank you.

So last year, it was so easy to get on google discover, all you had to do was buy popup traffic and use t.co redirect to get on google discover and get hundreds of thousanda visits a day.

This was, to my knowledge, fixed earlier this year.

However, there are still spammy websites getting on google discover and I am 100% sure they are using fake referals and I would like to know more. This fake referal traffic is undetectable both by similarweb and semrush. If someone has more information or knows how to find the origin of this traffic, I would be really grateful and we can work together.
 

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How does google discover see the referral traffic? Why just the t.co redirect? Perhaps another well known redirect service is needed?
 
RocketRank said:
Huh, I had no idea Discover could be gamed through referrals like that. pollaris75's question about how Discover actually reads the referral stuck with me, since tracing the origin seems like the real puzzle.
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through GA
I guess nobody really knows
 
I face the same problem and I really dont know how to solve it. Some websites gain backlinks from spammy sources and it's difficult to find a solution for this.
 
Alma said:
Hello,

First I would like to ask everyone to not use AI to answer this or use general advice that's pointless - lately every post is just a swarm of this. Please discuss only if you have knowledge & experience with this, thank you.

So last year, it was so easy to get on google discover, all you had to do was buy popup traffic and use t.co redirect to get on google discover and get hundreds of thousanda visits a day.

This was, to my knowledge, fixed earlier this year.

However, there are still spammy websites getting on google discover and I am 100% sure they are using fake referals and I would like to know more. This fake referal traffic is undetectable both by similarweb and semrush. If someone has more information or knows how to find the origin of this traffic, I would be really grateful and we can work together.
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frankly speaking, I would be careful making conclusions based only on referral traffic stats as google analytics cannot always provide the true traffic source. I would check whether there is correlation between the peak times of referral traffic and GSC Discover clicks and whether the dates coincide. have you noticed any tendencies in traffic source before getting discover clicks?
 
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