Buttons-for-website dot com.

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   sallybeaposted 9 years ago

   
   I am seeing a site called buttons for website dot com on my stats pages - is anyone else seeing this and should I be concerned?  Is this not a spam site?

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      NateB11posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I've been getting that on my one of my own sites. Not sure what it is. Thought it was referrer spam at first.

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         NateB11posted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Referrer spam is not necessarily cause for alarm. Mostly it's used to get people to click the link so they get traffic to their site.

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            NateB11posted 9 years agoin reply to this

            Here's a bit about referer spam, including what matt cutts said about it. https://www.seroundtable.com/referer-spam-16321.html

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               sallybeaposted 9 years agoin reply to this

               Thanks, interesting video - appreciate your taking the time to check this out for me.

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   calculus-geometryposted 9 years ago

   Weird, it redirects to sharebutton dot net.  My guess is you got traffic from a sharing button hosted by that site.  What can you really do about unusual traffic sources though?

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      sallybeaposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      That is very likely as I found an online discussion about  a hub which was being looked at at the same time as this site appeared in Google real time
      Only time will tell I guess.

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   The Examiner-1posted 9 years ago

   I just checked and have not seen it so far Sally. Did you check it out? Do not because I just looked on Google and it said that it is a spam scam. I would delete it.

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      sallybeaposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I saw them on my Google real time stats. There is nothing for me to delete on my pages as yet.
      I was curious and wondered who they were so I looked them up.

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   Carlos Bussposted 9 years ago

   Hi sallybea, this is definitely Spam, in fact, is called referral SPAM there are a few ways to stop them you can block it on your .htacces by adding this:
   
   ## SITE REFERRER BANNING
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} buttons-for-website\.com [NC,OR]
   
   Just be careful and make a backup of your file first.
   
   If you don't feel comfortable editing the file you can add a filter in your admin tab of google analytics

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      flycatcherrrposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Carlos, remember, it is not possible for HP users to access, copy, and/or edit the .htaccess file for Hubpages.com.  Only the owners of the site can do that.

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         Carlos Bussposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Maybe if you ask the owner he can do it or if not by .htaccess can try any of the methods here http://www.ohow.co/block-referrer-spam-list/

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