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Offline dampfpanzerwagon

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Blogger View are going through the roof!
« on: July 01, 2016, 05:46:17 PM »
Over the last couple of weeks my average views per month have jumped from between 8000 - 10000 views to 30000 a month

The bulk seem to be coming from the following site - can anyone help me stop this intrusion?

http://semalt.org/

Tony
« Last Edit: July 01, 2016, 05:55:38 PM by dampfpanzerwagon »

Offline Belgian

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Re: Blogger View are going trough the roof!
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2016, 05:55:21 PM »
Over the last couple of weeks my average views per month have jumped from between 8000 - 10000 views.

The bulk seem to be coming from the following site - can anyone help me stop this intrusion?

http://semalt.org/

Tony

Don't think there's much you can do. I wouldn't click on these sources from your stat page as that may increase the number of visits from the site and others. Normally it stops after a while have experienced some spikes from similar websites on my blog but neglible in number of views looking at my total traffic amount.
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Offline stone-cold-lead

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Re: Blogger View are going through the roof!
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2016, 06:13:26 PM »
I've not kept much of an eye on my blog for quite some time but have noticed spikes in traffic from certain sites over the years. It's largely a mystery to me. Although I did once get a lot of traffic from a sex dating site which turned out to be the result of me using the 'charm of making' from Excalibur in one of my post titles.  lol

Offline Westfalia Chris

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Re: Blogger View are going through the roof!
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2016, 06:22:47 PM »
Semalt is a right bloody nuisance. It's apparently a network affiliated with some dubious Ukrainian SEO outfit trying to generate traffic to their own sites (or worse) and is known for skewing up ratings (it's a right mess filtering them from our company's statistics).

Here's a tutorial on how to block it in Wordpress. It is a bit involved and I do not know if it is applicable to blogger, but it might be a starting point.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-block-semaltcom-from-visiting-your-wordpress-website

Offline dampfpanzerwagon

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Re: Blogger View are going through the roof!
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2016, 07:40:09 AM »
Thanks for the advice.

Tony

 

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