Stop and remove Dbutton.net referral spam in Google Analytics
Dbutton.net is a website that engages in a blackhat SEO tactic known as referrer spam indexing. Dbutton.net referrer spam targets your website’s analytical data in hopes that it will help to promote the website and boost the spam URL’s rank in Google search result pages by creating backlinks off your website’s access logs. However, by doing so it can cause many problems with your website’s appropriate data.
Dbutton.net referrer spam and referrer spam in general from other URLs like justprofit.xyz is a growing problem for many webmasters, website owners, and anyone who values their website’s analytical data. Referrer spam can ruin website data measured by Google Analytics and other analytical services. The website data it can affect includes everything measured in the Audience, Acquisition, and Behavior areas as calculated by Google Analytics. For example, Dbutton.net referrer spam can destroy your bounce rate because the spam URL typically only lands on a single webpage on your website and leaves your website from the same webpage. Referrer spam can also hit your website from sources around the world, from various resources, and more.
Quick Links
- What is Dbutton.net?
- How to block Dbutton.net referral spam in Google Analytics
- How to block Dbutton.net referral spam with your htaccess file
- How to block Dbutton.net referral spam with WP Referrer Spam Blocker plugin
Dbutton.net is a website that wants to push a donate button for your website. It does this so you will add a backlink to their page on your site by implemented the button.
The URL is known to actively engage in referrer spam indexing tactics aimed at your website’s analytical data. Dbutton.net referrer spam is designed to hit your website with repeated requests at any given time and from any location around the world using traffic bots, computers infected with malicious software, and other blackhat SEO tactics. The benefits that referral spammers have by engaging in referrer spamming is that it will allow them advertise the website they want people to visit and it will improve the spammers search engine ranking by creating backlinks to their website off your website’s access log.
The downside to unwanted Dbutton.net referral traffic for website owners is that it can mess up the appropriate Google Analytics data and other website metrics provided by third-party services. In some cases it can also use up your website’s bandwidth by creating repeated site requests. However, this is not the case with this URL since it primarily generates ghost hits that do not actually land on your website.
Spammers target the referral traffic of your website for several reasons:
- Referrer spammers want to promote a webpage and want you to visit the webpage or search for it online through Google search engine results pages.
- Referrer spammers want to boost their rank on Google search engine results pages by creating backlinks. They do this by logging requests into your website’s access log, which is then crawled by Google bot and seen as a backlink to the spam site.
Dbutton.net referrer spam is not entirely dangerous to your website. It will most likely not cause any trouble with how your website is accessed by your visitors or ranked by Google. However, in some cases referrer spam may use up your website’s bandwidth and CPU by creating multiple site requests to your website. In other cases, the spam URL is served to your analytical data by traffic bots which create ghost hits and never actually land on your website, which happens to be the case with this URL. They often target your GA ID number.
To block Dbutton.net referral spam in Google Analytics follow the instructions below. Blocking Dbutton.net referrer spam in Google Analytics by creating an exclude filter will only mask the spam URL. To block the referrer spam URL at the sources see the instructions below to block Dbutton.net referrer spam using your website’s .htaccess file.
1. Open your Google Analytics account and go to the Admin tab and click All Filters.
2. Click the ADD FILTER button to create a new exclude filter.
3. Add Dbutton.net as the Filter Name.
4. Select the Custom Filter Type.
5. In Filter Field, find and select Campaign Source in the list. In the Filter Pattern text box, add Dbutton.net and click the Save button on the bottom of the webpage.
To block referrer spam at the source using your .htacess file add the code below to your .htaccess file.
## SITE REFERRER BANNING
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} dbutton.net [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} dbutton.net
RewriteRule .* - [F]
Botcrawl.com has published a plugin for WordPress website called WP Referrer Spam Blocker. Our free Referrer Spam Blocker plugin for WordPress can be used to automatically block referrer spam URLs. However, this plugin has not been updated with this domain.
- Download Referrer Spam Blocker plugin for WordPress.
- Go to Plugins > Add New and click Upload Plugin.
- Click Choose File and select the referrer-spam-blocker.zip file and click Install Now.
