Block Referral Websites from showing in Piwik

Support & Bugs
1

I was wondering if there was a way to block a particular site from showing in the ‘Referrer Websites’ section in Piwik?.

Recently we have started seeing all the sites we track as having ‘referrals’ from a site called semalt.com, the referral is actually a crawler and not bringing human visitors but when clients see this they go to the site thinking it is bringing them traffic.

2

I suspect semalt.com is a spammer, not a crawler. You may want to post your experience at:

http://dev.piwik.org/trac/ticket/2268

3

Hello
I have the same problem with semalt.com

I’d like to know how to exclude it of piwik stats…:S

4

Adding this to htaccess has worked for me so far

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} semalt.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

5

I have already this line : RewriteEngine in my htaccess
should I add exactly like this ? :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} semalt.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

6

You can just add

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} semalt.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

after

RewriteEngine on

7

I’ve implemented Referrer Spam blacklist in Piwik! please contribute any new spamming domain in the ticket : Implement a default Referrer spam blacklist · Issue #2268 · matomo-org/matomo · GitHub

8

Thank you very, very much for this.

Is it possible to somehow set referrer_urls_spam = blacklist.file instead of filling up global.ini.php with referrer_urls_spam entries?

9

Not possible, please let me know which sites are spam, as we want to whitelist case by case and not too broad.

10

I have a low traffic site the refferal spammers seem to really love. Pretty much all of them come from IP addresses in either Ukraine or Russian Federation. Here are the sites from the last week:

hochu-mebel.by
housfine.net
http://www.aidoumi.com/home.php?mod=space&uid=105526
just-like.net

letseks.net
medcenter-a.ru
mifilm.ru

mosvolos.ru

pornogig.com
pornotubexxx.name
rand-chlen.ru
randecan.com
richard-time.ru
sckuns.ru

supermesta.ru
ua-company.ru

workout-gym.ru
www.33realty.ru

www.escort-services-israel.net
www.goforexvps.com
www.prostitutki-donetska.org
www.prostitutki-ekaterinburga.org

www.prostitutki-odessa.org
www.prostitutki-rostova.org
www.socioforum.su

www.telesvoboda.ru

11

Hello

Can you please ban success-seo.com, they are stat spamming through all my domains.

Thanks

12

Can you please ban progressive-seo.com , too. They are stat spamming by different IPs through all my domains.

Thanks and Regards

13

@farfalla

Please report this to

or add it to the list there and create a Pull Request.