Block hulfingtonpost.com should you worry about it everything you need to know

Hey guys now I’m going to explain everything about sanjosestartups.com, hulfingtonpost.com , bestwebsitesawards.com , spammer everything you need to know. I was getting hits from hulfingtonpost.com referral. As this is the same as previous all the darodar , ilovevitaly, econom and priceg.com which is the same redirecting spam.

What this spam is actually

Now hulfingtonpost.com , bestwebsitesawards.com is a simple redirecting domain redirecting to ilovevitaly.ru and the same again redirecting to aliexpress.com with a referral URL. The spammer is just trying to make money with referral link when someone buys something at aliexpress.com the spammer will get paid. To know more about referral spam why they spam and why to stop them read below article.

Should you worry about this spam?

If you read above article there are some disadvantages getting hits as spam traffic but in this case I do not think there is any problem getting hits from hulfingtonpost.com if it the same as darodar.com which is not visiting our website at all, it just manipulates the analytics code to display the spam traffic.

If this is not the case then you may want to block this spam with physical code and if it is manipulating analytics code then still you don’t want to see this traffic. Below is complete guide for blocking hulfingtonpost.com spam.

How this spam works

darodar.com spam was really a fake referrer which was manipulating analytics to display spam traffic in which case we don’t have to worry about but still we can remove that traffic in analytics. Spammers is doing something with analytics code and displaying fake traffic in our analytics so we visit the website to know about the referrer. Referrer traffic means when your website link is clicked from some other website and a visit is made it called referrer traffic from earlier website. Any website can have your links but now there is no actual website at hulfingtonpost.com so possibly it also same as darodar spam.

Is it possible to block this spammer server itself?

This spammer has 100+ domains registered at his name and maybe he will use most of them to spam us. We cannot block all the domains one by one and hence many of us are thinking to block the server. But the question is the browser is not going to return the ip of the referrer websites server and hence we cannot track it. You can block the visits from a specific location that way you can lose your visitors from that location but doing so is not useful as I have seen the visits from many locations outside Russia. Below are some previous methods to block hulfingtonpost.com

Block hulfingtonpost.com spam

If the visits are real and physical then you can block with javascript, PHP and .htaccess codes. If the code doesn’t work then probably its fake traffic and you can remove it from analytics properties.

Methods to block real referral traffic from hulfingtonpost.com

This method will only work if the traffic is physical as I have explained above. You have to add these code in your website header.

Javascript code

PHP code

$blocklink = ['http://hulfingtonpost.com'];
foreach ($blocklink as $value) {
if ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERRER'] == $value)
header('Location: http://google.com/');
}

.htaccess code

You have to add this code in your .htaccess file.

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer hulfingtonpost.com spamlink=yes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=spamlink


Now if none of these works then use analytics filter to remove this traffic and get better results of your website traffic.

Method to block fake referral traffic

You can use analytics filters to remove this spam hits from result see below article.

Use analytics to block hulfingtonpost.com

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