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(Entry was posted by Leo B on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 12/04/2015).

WTF - Referral traffic from Editmysite

WTF - Referral traffic from Editmysite .com - SPAM, hacking or what??
Goes to: http ://11160288-599743348614300941.preview.editmysite .com/editor/main.php

Any idea guys?? PLEASE HELP?  
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  • Leo B: WTF - Referral traffic from Editmysite .com - SPAM, hacking or what???
    Goes to: ;http ://11160288-599743348614300941.preview.editmysite .com/editor/main.php

    Any idea guys??? PLEASE HELP
  • Jan Stüber: https://www.google.de/#q=site:preview.editmysite.com&newwindow=1&start=0
  • Jordi Bericat: Hey +Leo B I get shitloads of spam referrals like this one on my sites. Using filters on your Analytics Admin tab may be a good idea -> https://megalytic.com/blog/how-to-filter-out-fake-referrals-and-other-google-analytics-spam

    cheers!
  • Janna Maica Feliciano: Happened to me too last month though I get different referral spams.

    Just *Add Filter to your Analytics Admin tab. Then exclude *Referral, Insert the URL at 'Filter Pattern'

    Step by Step guide at:
    http://botcrawl.com/stop-claim381811-copyrightclaims-org-referral-spam-in-google-analytics/

    Hope that helps.
    
  • Leo B: +Janna Maica Feliciano ;+Jordi Bericat ; ;this shows in WP / JetPack stats - I don;'t care that it shows in Analytics ... I just want to be sure someone is not HACKING my site
  • Jordi Bericat: Hey +Leo B, JetPack fetches visitors data from Analytics -> https://jetpack.me/tag/google-analytics/, just make sure this very same referral is not listed somewhere in your analytics dashboard bro. Hope it helps anyway :)
  • Leo B: +Jordi Bericat ;this does not help because you are completely wrong - Jetpack DOES NOT fetch data from GA they can run in parallel but are in no way connected ;
  • Jordi Bericat: well then you should look for a way to filter those spam referrals on jetpack (because that's what it is, a spam referral). If it were me I'd just stop using that jetpack stats and use the google analytics ones (just a suggestion though).
  • Jim Munro: From the expert panel in this week's SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:57:37 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/wtf_referral_traffic_from_editmysite +Leo B

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