Hi, I manage several sites and some of them are receiving a ton (potentially 25-40 %) parasite traffic from spam sites, fake blogs, might be partly robot traffic. I have a list of spammy URLs that are sending me traffic and I want to band them. Lots of visits arrive from the Ukraine. I know that Google does take account of traffic quality as well and poor quality traffic can do harm to SEO (I'm saying this from experience). Which are the best ways to ban poor quality traffic? (I'm talking traffic here, potentially banning URLs, otherwise I am already using the Google disavow tool... I am also using the IP Deny Manager from Cpanel to ban some URLs as well, but it often rejects URLs with the message: "Sorry. The hostname you entered could not be resolved to a valid IP address."...) So, how to ban selected URLs? (Not IPs, I know that, but: URLs!) Thank in advance for helping!
One thing you can do is you can ban traffic from that IP. You can even ban City from Google Analytics.
Just search for lack listed IPs and city tooo,and ban those IP to make a positive traffic on your web.
You could always try cloudflare, and set the security up pretty high. They seem to be pretty good at detecting bad traffic, at least for my websites. You can also ban by country.
You are right, in worse case it could hurt your serp. And filtering out the traffic in Google Analytics wont do you any good, as you are still getting the traffic. I think you need to IP ban them in cPanel...
If you are having unwanted back links as well as bad traffics,then there is a tool available to remove such a links which can be generated from bad blogs or any other sources.Google disavow tool is useful to remove such a links.you have to send the links which you want to remove to the Google by using this tool.
I am using Google Disavow, but it doesn't have any effect. It's been 4-5 months and still waiting. I can see no strong effect of it on my rankings, nor on visitors... some people said it takes months for Google to take everything into consideration. As for banning: I want to ban all traffic from selected URLs (ban referral traffic) I explained that I can ban IPs, but that is not the issue: banning a few IPs would not help, but I don't want to ban entire countries! I want to ban traffic arriving from spam URLs. Ban anything coming from a specific list of about 600 spam URLs that I recently filtered out. Is there such a possibility in robots.txt or somewhere? Just block referrals from certain sites... That's a hard nut, I guess!
Ban people's IPs (visitors) or the site hosting IPs? Not sure if it works if I ban the site host IPs. I have a list of about 600 junk traffic-sending URLs, but it would be an immense work to figure out the host IPs for each! Suppose they change IPs... then I end up with continuing junk traffic. Anyway, I think the Cpanel system can only ban visitors' IPs, it might not work for hosts. I still want to ban URLs. Anyone else has ideas?
Disavow tool should be enough, at least these links won't affect your rank. Could you please answer these questions : - Did you receive the "Unnatural link" warning ? - Have you seen a huge drop in your traffic recently (or someday) ? I am asking you these questions because, yes Google can penalize you due to bad traffic links. But it doesn't mean they have already penalized you. If Google has not penalized you yet, continue with disavow links, because it means those links didn't affect you at all. So let them continue if they found it funny.
if you have time, use cpanel to see their ips and after that open your htacces file and block the ips
Well, the problem is that the IP is the visitor's IP. It's not the website's IP. So instead of blocking visitors, I need to block the ENTIRE TRAFFIC, like blocking the entire stream from a source. How to do that? I do not know... I can ban IPs, yes and I can disavow links... but not many other ideas.