I have a website for a non-profit in Cambodia and use Google Analytics to provide the missionaries location information on the site visits. The site doesn’t normally experience a lot of traffic, but I noticed that there were quite a few visits both yesterday and today from numerous countries with referrals from “resell-seo-services.com” and “auto-seo-services.com”, When I Googled this it appears that it is related to a spam bot. I wanted to ask if this is something I should worry about, just ignore, block or remove Google Analytics and use something else.
I did find an online article (https://carloseo.com/how-to-block-unwanted-crawlers-from-accessing-your-site/) that suggested adding this in the htaccess file:
## STOP Semalt.com Crawler Spam
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} semalt\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} uptime\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} top1\-seo\-service\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} free\-video\-tool\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} responsive\-test\.net [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} keywords\-monitoring\-your\-success\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
I assume all I need to do to block this spam is add or replace the referrals noted above (using the backslash) in the suggest code for the htaccess file.
Thanks in advance for pointing me in the right direction.