Semalt.com … referral spam link not working?
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Hi,
After reading some previous posts on semal.com, I tried do click on the spam link that shows in stats referral section, but it doesnt seem to work: basically, when I click on it, nothing happens. I was expecting the spam link to change to undo, as per http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#marking-spam-referrers, but it didn’t.
What am I doing wrong?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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If you click a link and it’s not active then think “browser issue”.
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If you click a link and it’s not active then think “browser issue”.
I never do it. (Actually, I didn’t know it….)
Anyway, after clearing the browser cache and reloading the stats page, the referral link from semal vanished as well the views count droped, even before I try clicking again on the spam link. I guess my first click before clearing cache had already done the job, so… I think it worked.
Many thanks!!
Just fyi, I’m on Firefox 29.0 over Ubuntu 14.04 and clearing the cache seems to have solved the issue as described above.
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