Description
This plugin blocks referrer spam that you see in your page statistics. This problem is also widely known as spam referrer attacks.
The biggest list of spammers
Plugin uses the biggest public list of URLs that are considered as a spamming services; over 1100 URLs right now! List is provided by Piwik, the biggest open source analytics system and you can find it here; you can also contribute to that list by adding your own urls.
Custom URLs
Yep, you can add your own URLs to blacklist! In a flash! So easy
No annoying updates!
This plugin uses service located on our servers to update the list of spammers, hence you do not have to update the plugin itself whenever list is updated.
No need of an account!
As it is said before, this plugin uses endpoint to get the actual list. That endpoint points to authors server (https://srs.wielo.co), but there is no need of an account to use it. And no worries, this plugin do not collect any data about the users 
Hassle-free!
You can see the current list of blocked websites in the admin panel, under Settings/Referral Spam. There is also time of the next update. That is it! No configuration needed!
Free of any charges!
It is completely free! Enjoy!
Screenshots
Installation
via Admin Panel
- Go to Plugins -> Add new
- Search for Stop Referrer Spam
- Install the plugin and activate it.
via FTP/SFTP
- upload all plugin files to
wp-content/plugins/ - go to Plugins -> Installed plugins and activate Stop Referrer Spam
FAQ
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Well, no. Unfortunately some of the spam services uses techniques that makes them unrecognisable, but it still blocks nearly all of them
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No, not at all.
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Nope, no need of an account.
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Yes you can! And each URL will be a wildcard. That means, if you put horrible-spam.com on the list, it will block all the trafic from that domain + sub-domains on any level.
