08-25-2015, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by AdultKing
It's important for you to understand what's going on here.
Nobody is visiting your site, there are no links to your site from the site being displayed as a referrer.
The way this works is that someone runs scripts which randomly hit GA ids with fake referral information. They don't know who you are or what your site is, all they are interested in is getting clicks from people checking out where this referral came from.
There's not even an actual visit to your site, simply a script on a machine somewhere (usually infected a bunch of infected pc's) which triggers a Google analytics referral. It's exploiting a fundamental flaw in Google Analytics where GA doesn't care where the GA JS is fired from.
So to recap, nobody is visiting your site, the people doing this aren't relying on being indexed in Google, they are just collecting clicks from people like you wondering where these fake referrals come from.
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True.

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