A while back (a longish while back) I posted about blocking Seamalt.com from your website.  In the time since there there have been some developments.

0. I noticed that I was spelling “semalt” wrong.  I was typing “seamalt”.  And I’ve got in wrong in this post as well.  That’s bad website building.  People should be able to spell your URL.  Ha!

1. Another spam referral website has come to prominence.  Buttons-for-website.com is screwing up your site stats now.  You can read a thread about buttons-for-website.com over at the WordPress support forum via this link.

I am currently testing out the code which Motivmedia posted in that thread.  His code as posted is reproduced below.  As always I caution you to read this thread and do a bit of research before modifying your ,htaccess file if you don’t know what you are doing.

Put this in your .htaccess file.

# block referer spam
 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*backgroundpictures\.net/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*embedle\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*extener\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*fbfreegifts\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*feedouble\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*feedouble\.net/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*joinandplay\.me/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*joingames\.org/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*kambasoft\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*musicprojectfoundation\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*myprintscreen\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*openfrost\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*openmediasoft\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*savetubevideo\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*semalt\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*softomix\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*softomix\.net/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*softomix\.ru/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*soundfrost\.org/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*srecorder\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*vapmedia\.org/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*videofrost\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*videofrost\.net/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*youtubedownload\.org/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*zazagames\.org/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*buttons\-for\-website\.com [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*darodar\.com/ [NC,OR]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*7makemoneyonline\.com/ [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [F,L]
 </IfModule>
 # block referer spam end

2. Here is another post about an alternate way to block seamalt, buttons-for-website and other such sites.

How To Block Semalt And Buttons For Website Bots

3. Someone saw there was a need and wrote a WordPress plugin that will block seamalt.  In a perfect world this plugin will develop so that you can use it to black any webiste by just typing in the URL.  Investigate it at the link below.

Seamalt Blocker

As always the spammers are going to do their best to screw things up for the rest of us.