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How do I Ban Auto-Surfing Visitors?

htaccess? IP Blocking?

         

cocacolafun

4:49 pm on Nov 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Some members of my website decided to help me (without my consent) by promoting my website via auto-hits/auto surf programs.

When looking into my log, I caught those. But what can I do?

Really .. this is invalid traffic ... and I personally don't want it ... mostly because I don't want Adsense to think I am trying to cheat them.

Is there an easy way via apache/htaccess .... or as anyone been facing such a thing ... and what strategy can I put in place to make sure this don't happens?

CCF

Green_Grass

4:55 pm on Nov 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Remove adSense immediately as a first step. Donot wait.

cocacolafun

5:49 pm on Nov 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Adsense as been removed ...

But now ... how can I automaticly deny such visits?

martinibuster

6:24 pm on Nov 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Find out the user name and password used by your ex-friends, access the autosurf account, and deactivate your campaign. Be sure to change the password and email tied to that account to keep it closed.

If you cannot obtain the user name and password, then contact the owners of the service and deal with them directly on having that particular campaign shut down. There is an active campaign with your URL on it, and that's what you need to get shut down. I'm not sure you can ban these individuals by IP or any other way as they're all coming from different IPs and computers.

Definitely get rid of those so-called friends, or at least never, for the rest of your life, discuss your business activities with them.

cocacolafun

6:33 pm on Nov 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

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You got it wrong .. they are no friends ... and there is no way for me to know who did that ... it could be enemies for that matter.

Anyway ... I found a solution:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST}!^.*na.html
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*theirdomain\.theirextension.*
RewriteRule ^.* myurl.ext/na.html [R=301,L]

Any comments on this would be appreciated. I am a newbie with htaccess ...

Thanks in advance.

[edited by: tedster at 6:39 pm (utc) on Nov. 19, 2007]
[edit reason] make domain anonymous [/edit]

DreamMaker

1:51 pm on Nov 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

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The best way is use mod_rewrite to redirect unwant traffic to the page without ads