How To Block Referrer Spam With WordPress Plugin – Semalt Advice

23.05.2018

How To Block Referrer Spam With
WordPress Plugin – Semalt Advice

Referrer spam pollutes your Google Analytics account with fake information and uses low-quality traf c to
promote your content on the internet. When your Google Analytics account shows lots of views, the chances are
that your site has started receiving fake traf c. Spammers use a variety of techniques to generate revenues, and
when you click on the referrer spam links their ranking will be improved in the search engine results. Even when you
don't click on their links, they will screw up your Google Analytics reports, and you will not be able to share the
polluted reports with anyone in your business. Fortunately, some WordPress plugins have been designed to block
the referrer spam from affecting your Google Analytics data and accessing your site.

Oliver King, the Customer Success Manager of Semalt, provides here some fascinating issues in this regard.

How to get started?

If you have never used Google Analytics on your website, it's a great tool to get started with. Google Analytics lets
you see how the users interact with your web pages. You can also see which articles receive more traf c than the
others. It's possible to track the clicks on the links and run split tests. Everyone wants his website to be noticed on
the internet, but referrer spammers take advantages of our SEO techniques by sending lots of fake views to our
sites. They also insert hundreds to thousands of scripts and codes to damage our site's rank on the internet. Their

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URLs appear in your Google Analytics and affect countless websites
every month.

Why do you need to worry about the referrer spam?

Some might think that referrer spam is harmless and safe unless someone
clicks on the links, but it's not so. Even when you don't click on the links,
the referrer spam does affect your Google Analytics reports. For small
and medium-sized businesses, referrer spam can be a major threat as it
will ruin their sites in no time. If you are selling something through your
website, you cannot target the desired customers because of referrer
spam.

Blocking Referrer Spam in WordPress with plugins

A couple of WordPress plugins can help you keep the referrer spam to the bare minimum. The most exciting thing is
that almost all of these plugins are free and can be installed quickly. We are not responsible for the detrimental
effects and do not provide unpaid support or instructions, so you should always backup your les before installing
any WordPress plugin.

SpamReferrerBlock

It is a free plugin, famous for using automatically updated blacklists maintained by the author. Once fully installed,
the plugin is easy to con gure and can be added to your site conveniently.

Alternative Plugins

Some new plugins, such as Referrer Spam Blocker and Block Referral
Spam, have been introduced a few weeks ago, but these plugins have not
received satisfactory comments from critics, so it's not possible to judge
them properly.

Please be informed that the WordPress plugins cannot stop the ghost
spam from 4masters.org, webmaster-traf c.com, darodar.com, and
co.lumb.co. We recommend you to lter out the referrer spam in the
Google Analytics account to prevent your site from receiving false
referrer visits.

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