How to Stop Fake Traffic Like Reddit, Lifehacker abc.xyz

How to Stop Fake Traffic in Google Analytics? Because many of us see from last 1-2 Months. A lot of peoples seeing fake traffic data in Google Analytics from legit websites like Google, TheNextWeb and few more popular names. Though, It’s old, but recently this type of spamming is grown huge by team of few hackers. Actually, Don’t worry. No websites like TheNextWeb or Google Secret is visiting your blog. It’s all spam entry to create disturbance in Google Analytics and attack some popular blogs like TheNextWeb.

How to Stop Fake Traffic Like Secret.ɢoogle.com You are invited! Enter only with this ticket URL:

It’ll not affect your ranking. And as far i can understand, they are not even visiting your blog and consuming page views. Because we’re getting that referral traffic in android app also with Language Name as secret.google.com.

So, I suggest not to worry about that spam. Google Analytics is already facing downtime in their backend and slow reporting from few days or months i can say.

And they are working to stop them. But it’s kinda dDoS with multiple points of attack. Their target is Google Analytics and some popular blogs, not you. 🙂

PS. It’s not real google.com btw, It’s similar looking Secret.Google.com.

How can I remove this spam from my Google Analytics?

As a public service, PLEASE NOTE that filtering on referral domains IS NO LONGER EFFECTIVE! The spam has evolved – your filters need to evolve as well. This one is most easily stopped with a Language filter.

Trusted (and updated) references include:

How To Stop Fake Web Traffic.

Instead you can implement .htaccess file in the root folder of your server files(using FTP or other medium) including this below code. Copy past as it is. in the file. This will work for sure.

Add following line in .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} lifehacĸer.com [NC,OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} brateg.xyz [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} budilneg.xyz [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} begalka.xyz [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} bezlimitko.xyz [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} bukleteg.xyz [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} boltalko.xyz [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} biteg.xyz [NC,OR]
 RewriteRule .* - [F]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} abc.xyz [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} thenextweb.com [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} bukleteg.xyz [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} arendovalka.xyzabc.xyz [NC,OR]

</ifModule> .

So, Friends this may help to clear your analytic data and report correct visitors data.

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