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In my case the spam came from bot-traffic.icu (no link, sorry) and when looking at the site, it redirects to this one: You know the type: What is bot-traffic.icu?
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The real question is “what is the point”? I don’t really know the answer, I convince myself it’s just some nerd somewhere giving their self a false sense of power as they take revenge on a society that has shunned them. This is basically bogus traffic sent to your site to inflate and skew your traffic data.
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In this instance it was a case of referral and organic spam. Or had there been a Google Core update maybe following some recent on site optimisation? The anticipation was immense as I delved in for a deeper look. I’d been doing some blogging recently, so maybe it was that. Whilst taking a look at my Google Analytics data yesterday, I got all excited about a huge spike in traffic over the weekend.
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