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greyoxide
greyoxide

Reputation: 1287

rails - getting lots of traffic from semalt and buttons-for-websites.com

I just completed an app for a client, and within the first week of registering with Google were seeing around 80% of our traffic from Semalt and buttons-for-websites.com.

Im seeing alot of solutions that involve blocking spammers on the HTaccess level, but since were hosted on Heroku and using rails im not really sure how to do this.

I guess my question is this: do I have to worry about these spammers? And if so how would I prevent access to my rails app?

thanks in advance

Upvotes: 1

Views: 186

Answers (1)

John Judd
John Judd

Reputation: 760

You probably don't have to worry about Semalt and the like, other than having them mess up your analytics, but that alone can be annoying.

There is a rack middleware gem for Rails that promises to block Semalt. However, it doesn't block other referral spam. Have a look at: https://github.com/mdippery/rack-block-semalt

Upvotes: 1

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