Dealing with Semalt, Kambasoft, Buttons For Website and other Spam Bots

It seems like there has been a massive uptick in automated bot spammers crawling my sites lately and I really don’t like the trail they leave behind.  Besides taking up bandwidth, they are wreaking all sorts of havoc on my site analytics and throwing bounce rates out of wack.  I have tried a bunch of different approaches to try and block them but none have worked until now.

All you have to do is add the following to your htaccess file and it will keep the crawlers from access your site:

# Block fake traffic
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*savetubevideo\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*srecorder\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*semalt\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*kambasoft\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*buttons-for-website\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*savetubevideo\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*seoanalyses\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*darodar\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*ilovevitaly\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*priceg\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*blackhatworth\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*ilovevitaly\.co\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*srecorder\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*hulfingtonpost\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*anticrawler\.org\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*coderstate\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*wmasterlead\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*sharebutton\.net\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*seopub\.net\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*livefixer\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*adspart\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https?://([^.]+\.)*darodar\.com\ [NC,OR]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://semalt.com/ [L]

If you want to add a site to the list just replace the name of the site above and make sure you have the correct domain extension. The last line tells where to redirect the referral spam. In this case we are just sending it all right back to the guys who started this in the first place, Semalt.