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More referrer spam

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 1:18 am
by stephan-zrh
Hello,

We are getting complaints about more referrer spam:
best-seo-solution.com
*.simple-share-buttons.com
*.social-buttons.com

A customer sent a screenshot from Google Analytics, listing *.social-buttons.com, but I can't find it right away in the logs. I have attached the screenshot.

Unfortunately I can only find best-seo-solution.com in the logfiles:
best-seo-solution.com:
177.155.251.253 - - [04/Apr/2015:20:12:58 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 301 451 "http://best-seo-solution.com/try.php?u=http://__.com" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
177.155.251.253 - - [04/Apr/2015:20:13:00 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 7219 "http://best-seo-solution.com/try.php?u=http://__.com" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36"
180.72.17.228 - - [05/Apr/2015:04:22:20 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 301 451 "http://best-seo-solution.com/try.php?u=http://__.ch" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36"
180.72.17.228 - - [05/Apr/2015:04:22:22 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 7209 "http://best-seo-solution.com/try.php?u=http://__.ch" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36"
I found this website listing even more spammers: http://www.roimarketing.co.nz/articles/ ... -block-it/

Can you maybe add these to the blocklist?

Kind regards

-Stephan

Re: More referrer spam

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 3:06 pm
by mikeshinn
I think I'm going to add in a user definable list as well, that way you can add in whatever sites you like as you go. We'd still appreciate the reports so we can add them to the general rules, but this way you should be able to adapt quicker.

Re: More referrer spam

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 12:41 am
by stephan-zrh
Thanks a lot!

Re: More referrer spam

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 12:53 am
by stephan-zrh
Hello,

Just wanted to ask regarding these spammers. I see in the rules that best-seo-solution is listed but not yet the others (also not from the site linked above). Will you be adding these also?

Kind regards

-Stephan

Re: More referrer spam

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 3:28 am
by stephan-zrh
Just a short followup-question:

Is there a timeline for the GUI so that we can enter such URLs ourselves? It would of course be ideal, if we could just click a checkbox to notify you of such entries instead of having to notify you separately.

Kind regards

-Stephan

Re: More referrer spam

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 1:05 am
by stephan-zrh
Hello,

Just wondering if there is any progress on this.

Unfortunately, the problem is becoming increasingly annoying. We have a new customer's site up for a month and already the referrer-spammers are showing up (see attached image).

I also found this list: http://perishablepress.com/blacklist/ul ... cklist.txt

Kind regards

-Stephan