Yes, these Weirdos are visiting your site

We are a team of researchers working on trying to solve the web traffic spam problem for almost 4 months now. I must say that it has been an interesting journey from our initial fight with referral spam to realizing that today web referral spamming has evolved into an epidemic that we are calling web traffic spam.

There are multiple reports suggesting that bot traffic and weirdos that are making their rounds visiting your website make up 60% or more of your total web traffic. That is a scary thought but we now believe it to be true. In fact, in just 4 months, we have discovered and reported about botnets used for spamming, porn and SME spamming, Internet Service Providers (ISP) who tolerate spammers, anonymous spamming with Tor, fake traffic spamming, blackhat hackers, forum spammers and many more… If you are interested, you can subscribe to any of our social networks for updated news from MB.

Interestingly, it seems that web traffic spamming has now become the preferred way to promote websites. This demand has created such a huge market that the underground communities are taking part in the buy and sell traffic economy. In summary, economics 101 says that supply and demand are driving tons of weirdos to your site. Before you laugh at me and think that your site is an exception, think again! We created a Google Analytics (GA) test to show and educate people who uses GA that they have not been spared.

Let me round up this post by giving you a few predictions on the weirdos that will be visiting you in the near future. These weirdos range from harmless Google ghost spam to Chinese hackers looking for vulnerabilities on your website.

Watch out for them at a website owned by you:

• floating-share-buttons (dot) com: They are trying to sell you their social buttons to include with your website. The fake web address redirects to sharebutton (dot) to. [Ghost Spam]
• broadband (dot) kyivstar (dot) net and sovam (dot) net (dot) ua: These are probably net-citizens from Ukraine whose browsers or computers were hacked and used as botnets to market Russian businesses and porn to you. [Marketing Spam ]
• success-seo (dot) com: Infamous Semalt, they want to sell you their SEO services to bring in more ‘‘web’’ traffic. Try their SEO at your own risk. [Rogue Crawler Spam]
• hn (dot) kd (dot) ny (dot) adsl: No one really knows who these guys are, however, suggestions point to Chinese hackers. [Malicious Spam]
• mail (dot) *: The * here means any domain. These are probably compromised mail servers that are trying to either harvest the emails found on your website to spam you with email marketing or connect to your mail server to inject you with email spam. [Data Harvesting Spam]

If our predictions come true, give us a thumbs up on any of our social networks you prefer. ;) We hope that you have enjoyed this post. If you want to contact us, you can find more information about us from our project website.