Random overseas traffic

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  funcontherocks · Member · Mar 7, 2014 at 3:07 pm

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  Hi there,

  Could you shed some light on a recent increase in our website views from random locations overseas.

  I noticed a couple of referrer links from a site called Semalt a few days ago and stupidly signed up to try and find out what it was, I have a feeling it might be something to do with this as it just looks like spam links coming from proxy servers or something.

  Can you help?

  Many thanks!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 10, 2014 at 2:33 am

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  Semalt is spam for sure.

  Here is a thread that will fill you in on spam referrers:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-referrer-reporting?replies=3

  Please let me know if you have further questions or if anything is unclear.

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  funcontherocks · Member · Mar 10, 2014 at 2:23 pm

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  Thank you for getting back to me rootjosh.

  Yes I highlighted it as spam as soon as I realised, but I’m still getting this really odd traffic from all over the world. Is there anything I can do to stop this as it’s throwing my traffic reports off??

  Thank you!

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 10, 2014 at 4:36 pm

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  The spam reports are the best method of getting junk referrers thrown “off the bus”. It is a group effort among WordPress.com users that really lets us hone in on what the real spammers are, as opposed to just some unexpected traffic from somewhere unusual.