Fighting with referral spam (WordPress way)
Rolands Umbrovskis
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Rolands Umbrovskis
⭐️ IT Project & Development Manager at work | freelancer: Senior PHP & NodeJS, Python developer. + AI (use, dev & host)
Few months ago I started to collect referral spam pages in private file un bitbucket.org. Problem was that I did not know all spammers. Then, few weeks ago, I found that Piwik (Open source analytics) started their own "project", and they did the same thing I did - collected referral spam sites to block them from Your website.
On my own server I do that at server level, but some of my clients have hosting, where You can not edit server settings. This week I came up with another solution - Wordpress plugin "WP referrer spam blacklist". I will update list every week from Piwik's community-contributed list of spammers.
If You have WordPress site and no knowledge about or access to server settings, I made that for You!
Operations Delivery Manager
8yI´ll try out your plugin and if it works out nice, it goes to all my client websites. Fighting with referral spam is so tiring and always messing up all statistics, I feel that it is like fighting with a windmill! no matter what filters I put and how often I add more `referrals` to exclusion list, there is always something that slips through the cracks. Thanx, Roland!
CEO @ Morningscore - turning SEO into a game
8yGreat post, and great contribution :)