My client's website is receiving a lots of visits from a shady website - what should I do about it?

My client's website is receiving a lots of visits from a shady website - what should I do about it? - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the My client's website is receiving a lots of visits from a shady website - what should I do about it? error on your web browser. Problem :

My client's website is getting lots of visits and backlinks from and unknown URL that looks shady. When I try to visit the page it opens another website with a different URL.

What should I do about this?

Solution :

You should also consider to filter your Google Analytics statistics since the visits from this server are bogus and are tampering with your statistics!

Here is a tutorial how to create a filter for your Google Analytics account

If this website is indeed linking to your domain, and it's not looking legit, it can harm your reputation with Google, since Google doesn't know if you purchased this link or not.

There's not much we can do about sites that link to us, since the internet is built on this premise. However, we can still take action against spam sites. The first step would normally be to contact the webmaster and request that the links to your website be removed. In this case, it looks like the site is just spam, and you don't wanna draw more attention to yourself.

You should disavow the backlinks in Google Search Console. More here:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en

Then, feel free to report the site as spam:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713?hl=en

It's a common marketing ploy these days, where sites send you fake traffic so that you will visit their URL when you see it in analytics acquisition referral. That is likely what this is.

You can disavow the links from this website here:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main

Once the links have been disavowed, you can just ignore the traffic and not worry about it. If it really comes to it, you can either block that website's traffic by banning their IPs in htaccess as discovered by your logs, or you can filter your Analytics traffic to not include traffic referred by that site. Though these two methods really aren't necessary and are only a last resort if needed.

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the google-search-console, redirects, backlinks error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!