Fake Traffic Blaster is lightweight plugin that protects WordPress from fake traffic by redirecting suspicious visitors away from your blog..
Fake traffic is simulation, it's black hat technique that allow you to generate traffic to your blog, but this traffic is not real, This means it's generating by bot or software, no humans are involved, thus no conversion.
The reason is to game the statistics, and show that you are getting lot of traffic...
This could be serious attack from one of your competitors who wants to hurt your reputation, of course if this happened to you, then no doubt you would like to know.
So, it's idea to install Fake Traffic Blaster plugin, and protect your blog from such attacks..
Optional Create html page, upload it to the root of your blog, then add its URL in the Redirect URL field..
Fake traffic is simulation, it's black hat technique that allow you to generate traffic to your blog, but this traffic is not real.
Therefore, if you experience in your traffic, another simple way to check on whether you are subject to such attack is to see if IE hits are significantly higher than usual.
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