Fake Referral

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Jai Prakash: Hi ,
  In my site analytic report i see fake referral on my site. It is mostly form porn site & from China. Can This Referral harm my site ? What can i do to stop this. And I also ; disavow those link but again see referral.
   ;I hear this type of referral is called ghost . Here Is My Sit Url ; deaninfotech(.)com
   ;. Please Help Me .
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  Dave Elliott: you can block access to the site via your .htacess file(if you have one) ;http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess14.shtml ;
  
  Althoughthe referall itself is unlikely to do any harm. Referrals and links are NOT necessarily the same! Are you sure the site is linking to you?
  
  If it is linking then absolutely disavow it.
  
  If it is a referal then personally I like to filter them out of GA if they consistently turn up in my reports, especially if they have a high bounce rate and spend no time on the site.
  
  https://www.hallaminternet.com/2014/remove-semalt-google-analytics/
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  PromozSEO: Check the +Moz ;article here http://moz.com/ugc/how-to-stop-spam-bots-from-ruining-your-analytics-referral-data
  
  You have to block them with .HTACCESS file (preferred) otherwise you can filter out them using GA.
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  Sanjay Upadhyay: you can block this specific IP with the help of .htaccess code ;
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  Sanjay Upadhyay: To block users by IP address
  Type these four lines into your .htaccess file:
  Order allow, deny
  Deny from 111.222.333.444
  Deny from 555.666.777.888
  Allow from all
  
  " replace the example IP addresses "111.222.333.444" with the real IP address you want to block. +Jai Prakash ;