My top referring site doesn’t exist, how?

Hi,

What you mean when you mention: “it doesn’t exist!”
Do you mean that the site “site.ru” doesn’t exist?
Actually it exist, But temporary is not available

Yes, I know the website is down from I first saw it as it appeared on my referring sites but how can it be my top referring site when it doesn’t have any data or any page at all? I don’t understand how its possible to get users on my website.
Google went down to the second place whereas site.ru is at first!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 12 months ago by daariush.

May be some of it’s pages works
You can check your referrer links

It only says “site.ru” but when I open the links nothing shows up!
It’s very strange and yet no answers…

I see this is marked resolved, but I’d like to make you aware of what I’ve observed on my own site. All traffic referred from “site.ru” is hacking bots, looking to exploit weaknesses and insert malicious code into the WP site.

The urls they typically look for on my site are:

/phpmail/popup-pomo.php
/manager/popup-pomo.php
/permalink/popup-pomo.php
/wp-content/plugins/customize-partial-refredh/customize-partial-refredh.php
/wp-content/plugins/easyrotator-for-wordpress/Marvins.php

I have blocked all traffic referred from “site.ru”.

Thanks, I didn’t know it was marked as resolved.
I’ll look into the URL’s but how you’re managing to block them?
I also have a security plugin installed but I’m not sure it’s monitoring this situation or not.

It’s not related to wp-statistics
wp-statistics just records stats, Not detecting the type of visit

I edit my site’s .htaccess file. You can bring your site down if you’re not familiar with how to do this, so make a backup of the file before you attempt it.
Some security plugins also provide a way to edit .htaccess or use a .php file to block bad bots.

To block the referring site in .htaccess, I use

 
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} http\://site\.ru [NC]
    RewriteRule .* - [L,R=403]
 </IfModule>

To block the urls, I use

<IfModule mod_alias.c>
   RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/(customize\-partial\-refredh|Marvins|popup\-pomo)\.php
</IfModule>

There are many ways to accomplish this in .htaccess. This is what worked for me.

Thanks, I will definitely look into it.