Rhys Wynne

Alex Moss

rishilakhani

We all know how annoying it is when we see Semalt mess up our analytics data. This plugin helps you stop that from happening by referring Semalt’s crawler elsewhere! Based on an idea by Rishi Lakhani.
Simply install the plugin and follow the instructions on the Settings page.
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<li><a href="http://peadig.com/wordpress-plugins/semalt-blocker/" rel="nofollow ugc">Semalt</a> Plugin homepage.</li>
<li>Rishi’s post about <a href="http://refugeeks.com/referrer-spam-in-your-analytics" rel="nofollow ugc">understanding referer spam</a>.</li>
<li>More <a href="http://peadig.com/wordpress-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Plugins</a>.</li>
<li>Peadig: A <a href="http://peadig.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Bootstrap</a> theme framework.</li>
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Semalt Blocker

We all know how annoying it is when we see Semalt mess up our analytics data. This plugin helps you stop that from happening by referring Semalt' …

Chris Klosowski

Pretty simple. Just blocks semalt.semalt.com with a 403.
If your web host uses a web server that doesn’t support .htaccess, then this plugin is for you.
If your host supports .htaccess, you should try https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-semalt, as this is the best method.

WP Block Semalt

Simply uses the HTTP_REFERER to determine if it's from 'Semalt', and blocks it with a nice 403 "Unauthorized" response.

Semalt Blocker vs WP Block Semalt