Nobody likes spam, and it can be a very frustrating for WordPress site owners as it typically involves taking time to setup filters and researching the best way to block it. Many by now are used to dealing with referrer spam, as it something that has plagued us for years. However, in the past couple months there has been a new approach to this, in the form of what everyone is now calling language spam. Most of you probably started noticing this right around the time of the 2016 US elections. Follow our tutorial below on the best ways block language spam and prevent it from skewing your traffic and analytics statistics. It is very important to fix these as soon as they start appearing. 68% of a WordPress site’s traffic we tested was from language spam.
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/14042/how-to-block-language-spam-in-google-analytics-and-wordpress
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2016/12/19/how-to-block-language-spam-in-google-analytics-and-wordpress/
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