Ask HN: Why do I get so much traffic from random spam websites

Re:Ask HN: Why do I get so much traffic from random spam web... by MarkCole on Monday July 13, 2015 @06:42AM (#9877287)

This is a technique called referrer spam. It's not real traffic just a way to get you as the owner of your site to visit theirs and "hopefully" purchase whatever they're trying to sell.

If you wish to clean up your reports the only real way to do it is using filters[0]. Or optionally switching to a different analytics provider.

[0] http://blog.analytics-toolkit.com/2015/howto-fix-ghost-traff...

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Re:Ask HN: Why do I get so much traffic from random spam web... by taigeair on Monday July 13, 2015 @08:11AM (#9877596)

I see. I can filter it out but is there any way to stop it? Thanks,

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Re:Ask HN: Why do I get so much traffic from random spam web... by tehwebguy on Monday July 13, 2015 @08:24AM (#9877666)

Yes, you can filter it at the GA level or block it server-side but some of it can only be blocked at the GA level (because they are sending a fake ping to Google with your GA ID, rather than crawling your website)

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Re:Ask HN: Why do I get so much traffic from random spam web... by gesman on Monday July 13, 2015 @09:30AM (#9877938)

They are actually hitting the website. I don't use GA (I wrote my own analytics) and that's what i see in logs.

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