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What is "/?from=http://www.traffic2cash.xyz/" showing up on our homepage Analytics? #32

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jnhanks opened this issue Jan 30, 2016 · 1 comment

jnhanks commented Jan 30, 2016

GA reports the second-highest traffic on our home pages is "/?from=http://www.traffic2cash.xyz/"

Does anyone know where this comes from? Is it some kind of injected redirect?

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jnhanks commented Jan 30, 2016

So it is "ghost spam" or "referral spam" and it's inflating our traffic numbers. We can kill it with .htaccess but I don't think we have .htaccess on Github hosting https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/3zg0qq/a_little_help_with_google_analytics_what_is_this/

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