Should i be concerned about spam bots and what can i do about them?

cleverliving · Apr 28, 2015

so my website is has a great bounce rate without the spam bots which keep doping by which all have 100% bounce rate.

here are the websites in question:

simple-share-buttons.com
free-share-buttons.com
4webmasters.org
googlsucks.com
theguardlan.com
www.Get-Free-Traffic-Now.com
best-seo-offer.com
buttons-for-your-website.com

What should i do about them?
should i be concerned?

Hawkster · Apr 28, 2015

If its a wordpress site check out the wordfence plug in , pretty sure you can block certain bots from visiting your site with it.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

roadhamster · Apr 29, 2015

I guess that shows up in Google-Analytics? If yes, then do a search for "simple-share-buttons.com analytics referral spam" and the best you can do is to setup some filters in Analytics. Don't worry about it, those spammers use a kind of software to hit the Google Analytics servers, they never visit your site, you wont see them in Wordpress stats plugins logs. The only shitty thing about it is that it pollutes your Google Analytics with weird referrals and searchterms. Lots of analytics users complain about it.

cleverliving · Apr 29, 2015

oh really? i can definitely set up some filters in google analytic but i didnt realize they didnt even come to my site. i was mainly concerned about google penalizing me with a lower bounce rate.

I was also curious why they are spamming. can anyone explain?
as long as my site is not being attacked in any way im happy

roadhamster · Apr 29, 2015

nycdude · Apr 29, 2015

wisdomkid · Apr 29, 2015

I do use the wordpress wordfence plugin to block this websites and never allow them to send in fake traffic, block them and use the roadhamster's method to properly block them from analytics.

Goodluck

roadhamster · Apr 29, 2015

It's a good thing that you have Wordfence installed, but you can install 100 Wordfence-like plugins, they won't stop this kind of spam. It's send directly to the google servers with your analytics account number (UA-xxxxx-xx).

archon10 · Apr 29, 2015

nekstrebor · Apr 29, 2015

Will agree with archon10

cleverliving · Apr 30, 2015

alright guys thanks alot that really answers my question. its interesting and i did click on the the gardlan site. it took me to aliexpress

so i guess he got what he wanted.

i have implemented the filtter and hopefully i can start getting some more acurate reading in analytics

LoftPower · May 1, 2015

Keep us posted on how this is going for you. Hope you got it all taken care of.

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