How to block econom.co referral spam

 

From a few weeks all the webmasters around the world are disturbed with darodar a russian referral spam. I have already written an article to stop the darodar referral.

Since I managed a way to block the darodar spam, and nearly all the webmasters have blocked the darodar.com referral. Still some webmasters do not know about the darodar, and a new econom.co spam has been started disturbing webmasters. I have been getting the econom.co referral traffic from today morning.

How I get to know its a spam ?

You should be able to recognize your traffic if its spam or real. When I looked at my analytics properties I found some referral traffic from econom.co  and I searched for it on google, surprisingly there was no talk about econom at all as its new. When I tried to visit the website it just redirected me to aliexpress.com an e-commerce website. There was no such website at econom.co  so definitely its a spam.

What econom.co does ?

As I have already written an article about bad referral traffic and to stop them. This is just a bad referral traffic which slow down your website , and chances of losing your adsense account.

How to stop bad referral traffic.

When a webmaster looks at the analytics property for referral traffic , he tries to know from where this traffic is coming, where his website is listed. So when he clicks on the link he simply gets redirected to another referral websites. The one I tried was redirecting me to aliexpress.com.

How to block econom.co ?

The process of blocking this spam is same as darodar spam. I will discuss two ways to block econom.

1. with .htaccess file

You can stop any website from referring you with this code. copy and paste this code in your .htaccess file and save it.

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer econom.co spamlink=yes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=spamlink


2. with the javascript code

you have to add this javascript code to your website. best place to add is in head tag, because it will load faster. But it will slow down the loading of your website a liitle.

In place of GOTO add a url to which you want to redirect the traffic coming from econom.

 


var blocklink = [‘http://econom.co′];
for (var b = blocklink.length; b–;) {
if (document.referrer.match(blocklink[b]))
window.location = “http://GOTO/”;
}


see How to block all spam referral traffic.

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