Trafficparadise referral spam is back, but this time they have a new domain name that shows up in Google Analytics called trafficmonetize.org instead of their old 4webmasters.org referral spam domain name. Surprisingly enough, I only had to filter this spam out of my personal website Google Analytics and not this site (update: now I’ve had [&...
For those of you with Facebook accounts that were registered with a Microsoft e-mail address (outlook, hotmail, etcetera), then you had better change your e-mail address since now anyone can hack a Facebook account because of a security flaw from Microsoft caused by them recycling old Microsoft e-mail accounts. How Someone Could Hack A Facebook A...
While I was compressing a few images on my homepage to make this site load faster, I came across the little HTTPS yellow triangle error. In case you don’t know what the HTTPS yellow triangle warning stands for, it usually means that something on the page has been loaded over an unsecured (non-HTTPS) URL. While your page […]...
Event-Tracking.com referral spam may hit your Google Analytics account a few times and then disappear for a while after that. It’s not too interesting when compared to other referrer spam, so I’m just going to skip straight to the guide. How To Block Event-Tracking.com Spam: Filter Method The easiest way (and the way I always […]...
I haven’t received Get-Free-Traffic-Now.com referral spam in a few weeks now, but it’s still a nuisance that needs to be filtered out of the rest of my data. If you also have an issue with this referral spam ruining your Google Analytics data, then continue reading for a few methods on how to get rid of […]...
Social-buttons.com referral usually comes along with Free-Share-Buttons.com referral spam as the 2 are most likely related in some way (considering how similar the URLs and the current state of the sites are, it’s hard not to assume this). Because of this, I’ve created this article to show you how you can get rid of this ghost referr...
Free-Share-Buttons.com spam seems to be the most common ghost referrer spam out there. In fact, this spam seems to affect my Google Analytics data across all of my sites, even my new sites! Currently, my Google Analytics data for this site shows that 159 of my visits in the last month have come from free-share-buttons alone, […]...
Lately, I seem to be getting a lot of referrer spam as I mentioned in my article titled, “How to Stop Guardlink & Other Referrer Spam“. Now, in today’s article, I’ll be going over how to block 4webmasters.org Russian referral traffic and why it occurs. How To Block 4webmasters.org Russian Referral Traffic: Filter Method ...
Annoying pop-up ads are, well, annoying; which is the reason I try to minimise the intrusiveness of the ads on my sites. However, some Internet marketers have taken these ads to a whole new level, making them even more annoying than before. Now, I present to you, “The 5 Most Annoying Pop-Up Ads On The […]...
So today I woke up, checked my Google Analytics data, and saw a surge in traffic that was coming from a site called “Guardlink”. Now, I’ve never heard of this site, so naturally I was excited because I thought that I was receiving even more traffic to my most popular security article titled, “How Someone Could […]...