Unwanted Visitor

MarkD · 18-05-2009, 01:09 PM

I'm getting alot of visits from a site called s m i l e y s u p p l y dot c o m.
The site appears to be a totally automated BB and I suspect they are scraping content & pretending to be genuine visitors as when you visit the referred page there are no external links and large groups of posts all have the same date & time stamp!

I want to exclude them from my site, but they use more than one ip address range... I was thinking of using this example in my htaccess file. Can anyone confirm that the following should be ok...or recommend an alternative.

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} targetdomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

MarkD · 21-05-2009, 01:47 PM

Decided to implement anyway as no response... For anyone who is interested this did work!!! No more skewed stats and a potential content scraper stopped.

Now to see if theres anyone else I can get rid of!

***Brian Turner*** · 22-05-2009, 08:30 PM

Excellent, glad to hear it worked.

18-05-2009, 01:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
MarkD Commercial Finance Broker Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 69	Unwanted Visitor I'm getting alot of visits from a site called s m i l e y s u p p l y dot c o m. The site appears to be a totally automated BB and I suspect they are scraping content & pretending to be genuine visitors as when you visit the referred page there are no external links and large groups of posts all have the same date & time stamp! I want to exclude them from my site, but they use more than one ip address range... I was thinking of using this example in my htaccess file. Can anyone confirm that the following should be ok...or recommend an alternative. RewriteEngine on # Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} targetdomain\.com [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F] __________________ Mark Commercial Finance Broker including Equipment Leasing

21-05-2009, 01:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
MarkD Commercial Finance Broker Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 69	Re: Unwanted Visitor - Update Decided to implement anyway as no response... For anyone who is interested this did work!!! No more skewed stats and a potential content scraper stopped. Now to see if theres anyone else I can get rid of! __________________ Mark Commercial Finance Broker including Equipment Leasing

22-05-2009, 08:30 PM	#3 (permalink)
*Brian Turner* Business Guru Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Near Inverness, Highlands, Scotland Posts: 7,891	Re: Unwanted Visitor Excellent, glad to hear it worked. __________________ SEO specialist

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