Suddenly I'll see 25 or 30 visits referred from social buttons dotkom in my reports from servers all over the world. Is this an DOS attack? I've been seeing it on several of my sites. The sites with a lot of traffic it's harder to detect, but when I looked for it it was there. The smaller sites analytics reports are being largely manipulated.
Has anyone been seeing sudden spike in traffic from social buttons dotkom?
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J-S-T
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Yes i saw it in GA too... Might be just an attempt to drive traffic to their website
GA shows source as sitexx.social-buttons.com which ultimately redirects to main domain.
GA shows source as sitexx.social-buttons.com which ultimately redirects to main domain.
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What can we do to get rid of it?
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It's referral spam. The only way to get around this is to make a filter in GA to stop showing those referrals. You cannot block them with htacces, because they are not actually connecting to your website, they just spam your Google Analytics code.
This is a very good read (plus instructions how to)
http://www.analyticsedge.com/2014/12/removing-referral-spam-google-analytics/
This is a very good read (plus instructions how to)
http://www.analyticsedge.com/2014/12/removing-referral-spam-google-analytics/
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yes, was just going to post something about this.
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Nothing dangerous about it as long as you don't visit the spammed links. Just block them in Analytics like described above, and forget about them 
Excellent- Thank you so much!