carlosea

Glad to help @mongrel!

I totally agree @jonimueller, also using a strong password and user (never use the default “admin”) .

You haven’t been hacked the page is not real, it is Analytics Spam. I just saw it in some of my analytics accounts too.

To take care of it (and any other spammer of this type) create a valid hostname filter in Google Analytics.

Hope it helps,

Hi, this is spam and you can filter it to keep clean your data, here is an article that will help you create this filter.

https://moz.com/ugc/stop-ghost-spam-in-google-analytics-with-one-filter

Hope it helps,
Carlos

Hi @ipstenu-dh, @crafu

The .htacces file controls who access your site (among other things).

The type of referrer spam that @clage mention is commonly called Ghost Referrer Spam because it never accesses/visits your website. For that reason, there’s no point to block them using the .htaccess file.

It works by hitting random GA tracking-ID’s to show up in your reports. The only way to stop them for now, as @eadusseau says, is by using filters in GA.

On the other hand, Crawler Referrer Spam like semalt that uses a bot to crawl your site can be blocked by the .htaccess file. But there are just a few of them, the vast majority are Ghost.

Hi jkhod, you haven’t been hacked this is called Referrer Spam and there are many around attacking Google Analytics, @wslade is right because this kind of spam doesn’t get even to your page, it just hits random GA tracking ID’s.

the purpose as any spam is to get people to visit their site and get traffic or sometimes to sell something thru affiliate programs. You can see this article to understand more about it and different ways of stopping this and any other referrer spam.

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This is a Referrer Spam that uses a Google Analytics to make fake visits, so if you have other analytics, in your case WordPress, this Referrals won’t show up there.

Since these are not real visits the best thing is to stop them you can check this post for more information about Referrer Spam and how to stop it. [Link redacted]

WFBrian is right this kind of spammers never reaches your site, so it’s not a problem with the plugin, you can’t block them because they are not getting in.

What you can do is Stop them from showing your analytics, try any of the solutions in this article [Link redacted]

Since this sites never reach your site .htaccess won’t work the best way to block them is using filters in GA, here a made an article on how to block them and a list of the most common Referrer Spam Sites that I am updating frequently.

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