do you care about semalt?

[julian]

presumably semalt needs to be blocked?

 

[Adam H]

Nearly all their sign-ups are probably the result of website owners seeing them as referrals in their stats, its referral spam and nothing else. I cant say ive ever seen anyone say how good the platform is.

More info here if you need to know how to block:

https://www.billhartzer.com/pages/h...m-from-accessing-your-website-using-htaccess/

 

[dazc]

This works

# BLOCK Spammers
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer semalt.com spammer=yes

Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=spammer

 

[spiderspider]

Look up their facebook page (if its still active). Everyone hates them. Its spam traffic.
They say to contact them and have your site removed so they don't crawl you...... Yeah right....

I Use this in my .htaccess:

# block visitors referred from semalt.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} semalt\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.semalt.com [R=403,L]

 

[topcat]

Look up their facebook page (if its still active). Everyone hates them. Its spam traffic.
They say to contact them and have your site removed so they don't crawl you...... Yeah right....

I Use this in my .htaccess:

# block visitors referred from semalt.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} semalt\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.semalt.com [R=403,L]

Sending it back at then? Very clever

 

[spiderspider]

Sending it back at then? Very clever

Yup

I got the idea from a comment on their Facebook page. Someone put the code up, and basically said if we all do it, they will get the idea.

They were hitting one of my sites with 100+ visits a day. Normally wouldn't mind, but I wanted to sell the site, and they were screwing up the stats. So bounced it all back at them.

Now have it on all my sites, so have no idea if they are still trading, botting or not, and had totally forgot about them until this post.