What is share-buttons.xyz traffic and how to deal with it?

Question

Search Engine Optimization

Good afternoon. Today in my Google Analytics report I saw an unusual traffic source with share-buttons.zyx They explained to me that this is refspam. I googled, roughly understood what it was, but I didn’t fully understand how it harms my site. And how to get rid of it? As I understand it, you need to do settings in Analytics, do you need to prescribe anything else in .htaccess?

Answer 1

I usually write the following directives in .htaccess:
## ############################## BOT BANNING ####### ##########################
order allow,deny
deny from 217.23.11.15
allow from all
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s) ?://(www\.)?share-buttons.zyx.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* share-buttons.zyx [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} share-buttons.zyx [OR]
RewriteRule ^(.* )$ – [F,L]
## ############################## BOT BANNING ######## ##########################