Stop “keywords-monitoring-your-success.com” referral spam in Google Analytics

Keywords-monitoring-your-success.com is one of the most recent referrer spam URLs we discovered that is used to spam Google Analytics reports across the globe. If you notice keywords-monitoring-your-success.com referrals in Google Analytics it means that your account is being targeted by a spammer. It does not mean that someone from keywords-monitoring-your-success.com was referred to your website.

The referral path this URL may use is keywords-monitoring-your-success.com/try.php.

Why is keywords-monitoring-your-success.com spamming my website?

The reason why keywords-monitoring-your-success.com is spamming your website’s Google Analytics data is to get your attention and deceptively persuade you to visit the URL in your web browser. If you visit the URL you will be redirected to http://semalt.com/. Semalt.com is a website that is well known for utilizing various referrer spam URLs in order to generate potential customers.

We do not recommend websites that engage in referrer spam. Referrer spam is a blackhat SEO tactic that completely disregards your website’s data in order to desperately and recklessly promote online content.

Referrer spammers typically target your website’s data for several reasons:

• Referrer spammers want to promote a website 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’s indexing bots and seen as a backlink to the spam site.

Is keywords-monitoring-your-success.com referral spam harmful?

Keywords-monitoring-your-success.com referral spam is not essentially harmful to your website and it will not affect your rank in Google Search Results Pages; However, if you do not block keywords-monitoring-your-success.com spam from accessing your account it can ruin the data collected in your Google Analytics reports. For example, keywords-monitoring-your-success.com referrals will appear to land on a single webpage on your website and leave from the same website, which will create a 100% bounce rate. If your website is targeted by referrer spammers you may not be able to identify your website’s bounce rate. The same can be said about other data measured in most Google Analytics reports.

How to stop keywords-monitoring-your-success.com referral spam

These instructions show you how to stop keywords-monitoring-your-success.com referral spam and other referrer spam URLs in Google Analytics by creating an exclude filter. This is the method recommended by Google to block this type of referrer traffic.

1. Open your Google Analytics account and go to the Admin tab. Click All Filters on the left side.

2. Click the + ADD FILTER button to create a new filter.

3. Add keywords-monitoring-your-success.com or something else that you can remember as the Filter Name. If you plan to add more spam URLs to the list you can name the list something like “Referrer Spam Filter.”

4. Select the Custom Filter Type from the two options.

5. In Filter Field Field select Campaign Source.

6. In the Filter Pattern box, add keywords-monitoring-your-success.com and click the blue Save button on the bottom of the webpage. To add multiple URLs to the same filter you can make a Filter Pattern similar to this with a | between each URL: example.com | example.com | keywords-monitoring-your-success.com

Keywords-monitoring-your-success.com WHOIS information

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Updated Date: 2016-04-11T21:54:16Z
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