Views from Brazil

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  honeyman99 · Member · Jun 16, 2016 at 8:14 pm

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  My postings are being viewed by someone/something from Brazil. 98 views this year. The referrer is a link to a website of Semalt an SEO provider. This happens everyday. What is going on and how do I stop it?

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  timethief · Member · Jun 16, 2016 at 8:18 pm

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  You cannot stop it.

  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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  honeyman99 · Member · Jun 16, 2016 at 9:40 pm

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  Thanks for that. I marked the referrer as spam but Brazil still shows up in my stats. Should Brazil disappear because as far as I can tell it was only the semalt crawler thingy that viewed from there?