=== Analytics Spam Blocker ===
Contributors: Luke Williamson
Tags: analytics spam, analytics, spam, analytics block, block google spam, google spam
Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=ZG5A57GCEJ2XN
Requires at least: 1.0
Tested up to: 4.3
Stable tag: 1.8.1
License: GPLv2
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

This plugin blocks spam sites like semalt.com and buttons-for-website.com from reaching your website and affecting your Google Analytics statistics.

== Description ==
For any website and/or business owner, having Google Analytics is a vital tool to track your website's data.
Unfortunately there's spam bots from websites like semalt.com that bounce off your website and give you false records in your Google Analytics.
This plugin redirects those spam bots from ever reaching your website and unharming your Google Analytics data.

Visit this link to see the spam bots currently added to the list: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12249901/Temp/spam-list.txt

Temporarily you will have to deactivate and reactivate the plugin every time you update the plugin - this message will disappear once it's resolved.

== Installation ==
1. Upload the `analytics-spam-blocker` plugin folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. That's it!

Note: Temporarily you will have to deactivate and reactivate the plugin every time you update the plugin - this message will disappear once it's resolved.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==
= How does this work? =
With the constantly updating spam list, we are able to filter out the majority of these spam bots by marking them as spam in to your .htaccess file which prevents the spam bots from ever reaching your website.