Semalt.com
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Allow me to tackle a few things here.
First of all, the spam referrer link is currently available only for users on WordPress.com. It may be rolled into a future Jetpack release but is not available in Jetpack stats currently.
Regardless of where Semalt may be located, I’d like to reassure everyone that there is no security risk to your site based on a referrer link.
Finally, to @sabrasmith, if you are still experiencing issues logging into or viewing a site on WordPress.com, please post a new thread in the forums and add the tag “modlook” so we can assist you directly.
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Meh … I have much bigger fish to fry like answering questions here so I rarely even lay eyes on my stats more than once daily.
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Hi Guys,
Me also seeing “Semalt” in my site [pepfry.com] analytics “Referrer” section. Its being almost a week since I have seen it in the analytics – Now it has increased the views to 25 views per day…
It’s really a spam – When I click the link it takes me to its login page. I see that there is an option for “WordPress.com” – Is there any such thing for self hosted sites “WordPress.org” sites?
Thanks!
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If Semalt is indeed harmless why can’t WordPress find a way to get rid of it. I am just tired of seeing it and given all that’s going in the world today with spying it’s bothersome.
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There are some discussions about blocking the semalt crawler via htaccess. The two most common methods are inserting one of the following at the end of the .htaccess file:
# block visitors referred from semalt.com
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} semalt.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* – [F]– or –
SetEnvIfNoCase Via evil-spam-proxy spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer evil-spam-domain.com spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer evil-spam-keyword spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase Via pinappleproxy spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer semalt.com spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer poker spammer=yesOrder allow,deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=spammerMy experience is that these (I’ve added both as the first didn’t seem to make any difference) don’t totally get rid of the semalt referrals, but they cut them way down. I was averaging over 20 / day before, and since have only had 2 or 3.
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This seems helpful … can you please advise where one finds the .htaccess file?
thanks,
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@Icsterling: Your .htaccess file is found in the root folder where your WordPress installation is (self-hosted WP, that is; I’m not sure where or if you’d find it if your blog is on WP.com). It’s not accessible through the theme editor – only server side. (Hint: Copy it before doing any changes in case you inadvertently make any changes that affect your site!)
I might have been a bit off topic here on the WP.com forum but like others above, I’ve been stymied because the jetpack on self hosted sites doesn’t have the “report spam” capability and this crawler’s driving me crazy.
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@rpsellers
@lcsterling
Yours is an off-topic conversation that ought not to be posted here in the WordPress.com support forums because posting it here will likely create confusion. Please move your conversation to the correction support forum at http://wordpress.org/support/ If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers. -
@ timethief
Thanks for the proclamation of the obvious! I notice you haven’t replied with the same snark for all the others “off topic” above in this thread. Not helpful…
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Your site is not a free hosted WordPress.com blog.
http://www.compellingconcepts.com/ is a WordPress.ORG install.
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As Staff jackiedana has already said here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/semaltcom-2?replies=33#post-1676963
Allow me to tackle a few things here.
First of all, the spam referrer link is currently available only for users on WordPress.com. It may be rolled into a future Jetpack release but is not available in Jetpack stats currently.
Regardless of where Semalt may be located, I’d like to reassure everyone that there is no security risk to your site based on a referrer link.
@rpsellers
Please note the confusion that arises from posting to the wrong support forum. Please move your conversation to where it belongs. -
Oh please… I mentioned in my original post that while I might be off topic, I was answering another person’s question – one that had already been mentioned above. Such melodrama – a “hijacked thread” is not only unnecessary and unhelpful but also why so many of us on BOTH the .com and .org forums try to ignore overly-officious types… if the shoe fits?
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Apologies – didn’t understand the difference or that I might be in the wrong place. In fact, I still don’t understand … is this not part of Automatic?
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