Brateg.xyz referral spam (Free Instructions)

Brateg.xyz referral spam Removal Guide

What is Brateg.xyz referral spam?

What does Brateg.xyz mean in your Google Analytics?

The image indicating Brateg.xyz referral spamThe referral spam domain is identical to multiple other spam websites supposedly devised by Vitaly Popov.

Once Brateg.xyz referral spam plagues your Google Analytics account, you might notice unexpectedly high traffic from one particular domain. Such diversion aims to misguide the web owners that the popularity of their websites rocketed, while in fact, such ratings are fake.

The primary mission of such deception is to tempt the owners of this domain to visit a specific spam domain[1]. There have been multiple identical domains to Brateg referral spam already: Buketeg.xyz, Boltalko.xyz, and Rankings-analytics.com.

Such referral spam does not only misguide you with fake information about your website visitors but may also mislead you to potentially insecure domains [2]. The key problem is that your web page's technical information is exposed and, likewise, it becomes vulnerable for various scammers and crooks to benefit from them. Luckily, it is not a troublesome task to cease such felony and clean your Analytics account from fake traffic indicators.

There are different monetization techniques. While most of them are oriented at ordinary users, there is a growing number of strategies oriented at website administrators[3]. The essence of this felony is to replace the referrer link, the market which relates to other websites with the help of an HTTP header, with the one leading to a spam website[4].

While there is no huge benefit from a single spam link injected into one targeted website, just imagine what profit the owner of the end web page collected. It is common sense that high traffic earns income, so referral scams are a profitable way of earning money as well. If victims, website owners, fail to notice such deception instantly, the losses might be too severe.

Besides being aware of the real-time data you do not only lose money but fail to obtain valuable insight about the effectiveness website. Users' preferences give an invaluable insight that contributes to the overall improvement of the web page. What is more, while now the end-web pages are merely advertising domains, in the future, they might become a haven for hidden malicious presence.

Brateg.xyz referral spam termination

If you have run into such a scam for the first time, you might wonder how Brateg.xyz referral scam has plagued your Google Analytics account. One of the explanations is the open access to website log files. Such a feature enables the scammers to retrieve respective information in order to spam the account.

Additional tips will hint how to make accurate Google Analytics reports will be useful in order to evade such spam techniques in the future[5]. Fortunately, you can block the referral spam by completing these steps:

Step 1.

  1. Go to Admin -> All Filters.
  2. Enter New Filter and enter Brateg.xyz in the Filter Name box.
  3. Choose Custom Filter Type, then select Campaign Source from the drop-down Filter Field menu.
  4. Lastly, in the Filter Pattern field, type in Brateg.xyz and click Save.

Step 2.

  1. Log in to the cPanel account, navigate to the File Manager section, and mark the checkbox entitled as Document Root for -> your website.
  2. Mark Show Hidden Files and click Go. Once you locate the .htacess file, right-click on it and select Code Edit. Enter the following text and click Save Changes.

## SITE REFERRER BANNING
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} Brateg.xyz [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} Brateg.xyz
RewriteRule .* – [F]

Step 3.

  1. In your Analytics account, navigate to Admin Tab.
  2. Choose View, choose Filters and then press +Add Filter.
  3. In the Filter Name box, enter: Language Spam.
  4. In the Filter Pattern box, type in: \s[^\s]*\s|.{15,}|\.|,
  5. Click on Verify this Filter, and finish the action by saving Save.
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