Spam like visits to website

[marksierra]

I am having a problem where I'm getting an enormous amount of unique visitors that bounce from a small area in Oregon even though we never market there. It appears to be some type of ping. It messes up our tracking and inflates the bounce rate. Is there a way to block this? I'm OK with any type of block because our reach is statewide in Florida. ANy feedback?

[EGOL]

Just tossing out a story.....

I had a website that was getting a ton of traffic like you are talking about.  The cause was a computer lab that was using a page on our website as a "start page". They were not spammers.  They were fans.

[dogflog]

The ones coming from Portland Oregon are a form of scraper many coming from:

Ian Duggan,

IP 204.11.219.89

21 Productions

IP 204.11.219.96

Eric Fleischman

IP 204.11.219.87

You will also see some from forex-ninjas, these are simply referral spam, they're trying to get you to visit the url and essentially create a visit.

If you're using Wordpress install a plugin called IP Filter and place these IP's in to be filtered. This will take care of the ninjas and the others.

204.11.219.*

176.65.158.36

204.11.219.88

204.11.219.95

204.11.219.92

If you block all those IPs the visits will stop, that is what I have found.