How to block spam traffic?

[webxerossolutions]

Website referral spam has been a problem for several years and this form of artificial traffic to websites cannot be considered as real visitors who are genuinely interested in your products and services. This can lead to slow page loading times which then results in poor user experience and frustrated genuine visitors.

[Ravina123]

The next best thing to do is to follow these ways to block spam SEO traffic in Google Analytics-
1. Filter your Analytics traffic.
2. Block the known bots and spiders.
3. Add your own spam referrers.
4. Setup a bad referrer filter.
5. Block traffic from specific countries.
6. Ban bad bots.

[harryblossom0]

Use mod_security rulesets and fail2ban to auto-block malicious IPs. Leverage your CDN's DDoS protection and bot management features. Consider moving to a host with proactive security; shared hosting is a spam magnet. Monitor your logs religiously.