buttons-for-website.com

Thank you to all who have contributed to this subject. I found it very helpful. I have written a blog post (https://www.webimagedesigns.com/buttons-for-website-semalt-spambot-referral-traffic/) where I review exactly what you need in your .htaccess file to block both the buttons-for-website.com and the semalt.semalt.com SpamBot referral sites. I also tell you where to find your .htaccess file. In the blog comments please let me know if this works for you or if there is issues. I would like this to be a helpful resource.

Judy

Here is a great source detialing how to setup an even more efficent .htaccess code, and how to remove these referrals from analytics…

https://riseofweb.com/google-analytics-htaccess-and-spam-bot-referrals/


# BEGIN BLOCK SPAM REFERRALS
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (?:savetubevideo|srecorder|semalt|kambasoft|ilovevitaly|iloveitaly|net\.hts|priceg|darodar|econom|buttons\-for\-website|blackhatworth|hulfingtonpost|adviceforum)\.((?!\.).)*?$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
# END BLOCK SPAM REFERRALS


Edit: I mistakenly thought I had used this plugin, and blamed it on the Semalt/buttons-for-website spam I’m getting. I was incorrect. It has nothing to do with this plugin.

I have 2 blogs, neither of which has used this, and both receive this referral spam.

Hi! I came to this thread searching for buttons-for-website.com referral found in my Google analytics stats.
My website/ does not use WordPress and any third part plugins but I still get everyday visits from this site.
It seems another spambot like darodar.com and ilovevitaly – both from Russia.
These two were not actually visiting the sites, they just generated fake logs in Google servers which appeared in Analytics stats. The aim is to make you open their sites to view who is visiting you and generate traffic to them.
I think buttons-for-website acts the same way, so rewriting rules may not block them in Google Analytics.
I will block them using filters in Analytics’ Admin – this method worked for other sites. Just had to wait 1-2 days to fully dissapear from my stats.

I have been trying to block the buttons-for-website using this code from motivmedia

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*backgroundpictures\.net/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*embedle\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*extener\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*fbfreegifts\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*feedouble\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*feedouble\.net/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*joinandplay\.me/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*joingames\.org/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*kambasoft\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*musicprojectfoundation\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*myprintscreen\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*openfrost\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*openmediasoft\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*savetubevideo\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*semalt\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*softomix\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*softomix\.net/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*softomix\.ru/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*soundfrost\.org/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*srecorder\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*vapmedia\.org/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*videofrost\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*videofrost\.net/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*youtubedownload\.org/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*zazagames\.org/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*buttons\-for\-website\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*darodar\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://.*7makemoneyonline\.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [F,L]
</IfModule>

but so far, I am still getting referrals from this spambot on my blog, https://www.condogers.com

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Yes, our website everyday see the ref:buttons-for-website.com, and from many different country all over the world, I don’t know what happen, it like a robots? about every day some times on our website https://www.topgoods1.co(wholesale shoes etc.). looks not a human. if it is their Promotion measures, not real man. I go their website, redirect to https://sharebutton.net/ link, can’t see any contactus information and aboutus page, just Show the JS code. but the button looks good and concise.

I wonder if this referral isn’t something like semalt.com and their referral traffic which is 100% spam IMO. I see these kind of referrals and they always have some prompt for using their content or services, very much like semalt.com

The one other than this buttons URL I see is best-seo-offer.com and best-seo-solution.com with a myriad of other obscure domains which all seem to self promote something…

Spam SMH

I did notice the bounce rate for these referrals are 0.00% so at least it isn’t counting against that…

Follow these steps to exclude them from your Google Analytics statistics:

– In your Google Analytics, go to the Admin tab.
– Under the View Column select Filters GA filters
– Select New Filter GA New filter
– Put Buttons Referral Spam as a name for the Filter.
– Select Filter Type Custom. In Filter Field, find and select Campaign Source. In the Filter Pattern text box, copy and paste the next expression

social-buttons.com|simple-share-buttons.com|free-share-buttons.com
or any other referral you think it’s a spam referral

Hit Save and you’re done.

Hi,

Is this valid for the plugin?

.*?free-social-buttons.com
.*?Get-Free-Traffic-Now.com
.*?free-social-buttons.com
.*?darodar.com

I keep getting crap like this getting through:

www1.free-social-buttons.com

…when using just:

free-social-buttons.com

so I’m wondering if I need to use some wildcards? Its a bit weird though, as the line is:

$line = '/'.$line.'/';

…so I would have thought free-social-buttons.com would work fine?

TIA

Andy

The linked-to article below might help provide a ‘bigger picture’ understanding of what’s going on with spammy traffic sources like this. Even if seeing this useless traffic doesn’t cause you to visit the offending site (Danger Will Robinson!) it still takes away server resources (perhaps not to a ‘lose sleep at night’ degree). Therefore banishing them from the server could be pretty useful (though if you bannish an excessive number of sites doesn’t that use some resources too?

This fake traffic can be pretty confusing if you’re new to Google Analytics or some other tracking and reporting source and haven’t figured out how to exclude these sources from your reports.

Hope this helps.