Spam or Not

[Parick]

Hi Chris,
recently I have read an article about “SEMalt.c?m”. It claims to be indexing my site “http://www.onemediamarket.com” (Which is a WordPress site)and revering traffic which I thought was great. However it now seems to be damaging my site in search engine results by increasing my bounce rate.
I would love your thoughts on this. I no I can block the site from indexing my pages by adding code I found on wordpress.org.

I just want to be sure this is the right course of action.
Patrick.

PS You provide an asesome resource via your many sites and blogs etc. I’m a fan. Stay awesome.

[jurotek]

It’s not indexing you site. It sends bogus visits as referral with 100% bounce rate. I fell for the same thing. What you can do is to exclude them from a traffic count. In GA go to admin – all filters and exclude them as referral. That’s all you can do.

[Senff]

Semalt is becoming an increasing issue in the WordPress world. See this thread on the support forum (with some suggestions on how to block them): https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-block-semaltcom-from-visiting-your-wordpress-website

I’d definitely put it in the same category as spam. There’s nothing legit about it.

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