Source evidence

Doesn't work

Block Referer Spam · review · 2015-08-04T09:06:00+00:00

Block Referer Spam plugin evidence original source source API

complaintsentiment

highseverity

1.0relevance

3replies

Evidence linked to opportunitycommercial context

Proof Health

Open evidence

Commercial opportunities need traceable source links before they are treated as build-worthy.

5 / 32 rows with source links

15.6% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.

27 rows with no attached evidence

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Conversation

review · 1 stars

BrendanRog unresolved

Still seeing lots of spam referral traffic, updated the list and added more but it does not seem to block them. I only have this and 2 other plugins installed, left it running with no other plugins active so it’s not a conflict or anything. It would have been great if you would have contacted me before giving ma a 1 star review. Other users seem to have success with my plugin and I myself use it on 6 different WordPress sites. Instead of giving a bad rating, you could have opened a support case, or wrote me an email. Without any question, I cannot help you! 🙂 I’m sure the issue is he’s looking at old stats. The plugin doesn’t retroactively remove old spam referral traffic only new. I’ve got this plugin running on 20 sites and all now running referral spam free thanks to Rob’s most awesome plugin. OT, Rob you probably know by now referrer is misspelled in your plugin title. Not a big deal but it’s hurting your organic search rankings. Thank you again for this plugin. Hi again! 🙂 I am almost sure, as you can see he complained at just about every other plugin. OT: Thanks, I get that the SEO for the plugin is not optimal, I did not think about this when creating the plugin. But, it actually is not misspelled. Indeed, “Referrer” is misspelled, see more about this here: . I hope that my tags and the description make up for it, otherwise I will have to change it!

Commercial Context

Opportunity

trust and abuse-prevention operations

Spam abuse-prevention assurance for keeping sites trusted, protected, and recoverable

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams

Wedge: test spam lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts

Proof Blocked card complete market

Analysis

heuristic-v1

Summary: Doesn't work: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence quote: Doesn't work Still seeing lots of spam referral traffic, updated the list and added more but it does not seem to block them.

Affected feature: email

security bugs compatibility support

Plugin

API

Block Referer Spam

500 active installs · 25.3K downloads · rating 68.0

buttons-for-website floating-share-buttons referer semalt spam

Comments

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codestic 2015-08-04T13:31:00+00:00

It would have been great if you would have contacted me before giving ma a 1 star review. Other users seem to have success with my plugin and I myself use it on 6 different WordPress sites. Instead of giving a bad rating, you could have opened a support case, or wrote me an email. Without any question, I cannot help you! 🙂

amazemedia 2015-08-04T16:33:00+00:00

I’m sure the issue is he’s looking at old stats. The plugin doesn’t retroactively remove old spam referral traffic only new. I’ve got this plugin running on 20 sites and all now running referral spam free thanks to Rob’s most awesome plugin. OT, Rob you probably know by now referrer is misspelled in your plugin title. Not a big deal but it’s hurting your organic search rankings. Thank you again for this plugin.

codestic 2015-08-04T16:37:00+00:00

Hi again! 🙂 I am almost sure, as you can see he complained at just about every other plugin. OT: Thanks, I get that the SEO for the plugin is not optimal, I did not think about this when creating the plugin. But, it actually is not misspelled. Indeed, “Referrer” is misspelled, see more about this here: . I hope that my tags and the description make up for it, otherwise I will have to change it!