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1. buxx
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I have to much visitors om my weblog. You should say, the more, the marrier, but not these ones.
   They are all from foreign country and cannot have any interrest in my weblog at al.
   See my stats: http://www.buxx.nl/blogg/bbclone

   My host called me last week about an CPU overload om the server my domain runs on. So i turned off all plugins and the problem was over.
   But now i get all the visitors.

   It it was only comment spam, i could guess what the solluction should be, an comment spam blocker.
   But that is not the issue, i need something to block all the visits from the comuters in china who are using my site for something unknown.

   Who can give me an tip how i an manage this?
   This is gonna cost me this extra for the bandwith i used from my host.

2. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I wouldn't go around blocking countries. It looks like your being visited by foreign spam and email-harvesting bots. Just enable Bad Behavior, and you should be fine.

   http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/

   Also, you are receiving quite a bit of referrer spam. Bad Behavior should take care of most of it, but if you continue to receive some, just block those referrers with .htaccess. More info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam/Denying_Access#Deny_Access_Referrer_Spammers

3. buxx
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I will give that a try, thanks for the suggestion.
   Blocking an country is no optio, you are right. That was not the intent, i defined it wrong.

   But how did you see i get a lot of reffer spam?

4. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 6 years ago #

   See your detailed stats: http://www.buxx.nl/blogg/bbclone/show_detailed.php?lng=en

   You really don't think that all of those prescription drug sites are linking to you out of the kindness of their heart, do you? ^_-

5. buxx
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Ofcource not, if so, there is something terrebly wrong with the bastards =]
   Thanks, i installed the bad behavior plug in, how fast will it take to see the result of installing it?

6. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Instantly :)

7. buxx
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Mmh, that's what i hoped an expected, but...
   It does not stop, the server that visits my weblog the most, still comes every few minutes.

   What did i do wrong? I installed the bad behavior script, only changed this:
   $wp_bb_verbose_logging = FALSE;
   As suggested by the maker of the script.

8. error
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   You've done nothing wrong. Bad Behaviour seems to be working properly on your site. You may wish to do something about the referrer spam, however. :)

9. buxx
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Okay, so step 1 is taken en done.
   How can i block that issue you speak on? That referrer spam, is there an good solution for?

10. Mark (podz)
    Support Maven
    Posted 6 years ago #

    drDave to the rescue :)
    http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/ref-karma/

11. James
    Happiness Engineer
    Posted 6 years ago #

    And, here are few alternative solutions:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools#Referrer_Spam

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam/Denying_Access

12. buxx
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    I think i solved the issue. I installed ref-karma and bad bahavior, and it seems the spammers doent want to use my weblog anymore.

    So, topic closed, for the time beeing.

13. buxx
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    But maybe not, in the begin it held all the rubished visitors. But it seems like they seem to know a backdoor to still visit my weblog many many times.
    How can that be?

14. buxx
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    They still come, see my stats:
    http://www.buxx.nl/blogg/bbclone/show_detailed.php?lng=nl
    It seems like nothing helps, help!

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