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  ianedelman · Member · Feb 5, 2014 at 7:32 am

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  I am getting huge numbers of views from semalt.com/crawler. I see this is an issue for many other wordpress bloggers. Is there any way your servers can block these intrusions?

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

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  eurello · Staff · Feb 5, 2014 at 5:16 pm

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  Hi there,

  Yep, they are on our radar and we’re looking into it. You can read more about this here.

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  jackiedana · Member · Feb 20, 2014 at 10:38 pm

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  Please see the forums thread below to learn how to block Semalt and other referrers in your stats:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-referrer-reporting?replies=1