Semalt expert creating false stats
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I thought that semalt was blocked from wordpress sites. However, I am getting hits from Brazil daily and several times daily in many cases. Now, it is showing the search term as “semalt expert.” The hits are sometimes with specific blogs. Last year, these hits showed as semalt.com that I could identify as spam. Now, there is no spam shown, just the search term.
How do I get rid of semalt which is skewing my statistics?
I can’t insert plug-ins with this website.
Thank you for your help.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I picked up “semalt expert” under search terms as well today. Could you explain a bit what this is about? I followed the link and it seemed to discuss comments and selling or trying to sell a service? Are there any negatives to simply “not buying”
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Me, too. “semalt expert”, concurrent with the hit from Brazil. Hits also from Germany, and last week, Sweden?
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The semalt crawler has been reported many times as a spam referrer.
Marking spam referrers as spam referrers on your stats page simply removes the reporting from your stats. It does not block them. See here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-referrer-reporting?replies=3
http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#referrers
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