Do any bloggers BAN countries?
 

With the constant junk traffic and spam 'user' signups from .pl and .ru etc... has anyone gone so far as to ban those country extensions at the server level?

I have no interest in those visitors legit or not and has caused nothing but problems.

I know a couple of guys that ban India, Pakistan, and China to keep their quality up.

I dont have any country banned at the moment,but reason for that is as i have toomuch bandwidth and resources available so i dont really care,otherwise i would ban many countries.

What's a good ban list?

.ru
.pl

to start with... I'm a little leery to ban the chinese yet .

Wizzo I'm loving my juicyads... I need a rep btw.

send all those visitors my way... :winkwink:
I can help you out with the redirect script

Oh you sneaky pete! If I do I just might (or send them all to an affiliate link)

I don't block or redirect any countries. I use the geomatic tool at CrakRevenue to monetize them.

India
Pakistan
Egypt
United Arab Emirates
Russia
China

You're not likely to get significant traffic from other places to make it worthwhile to block.

Reciprocate lousy traffic for not so lousy traffic from a toplist.

Yeah I think I'd obviously send it somewhere. Thanks guys! Hope you're off to a good start on the new year!

Was about to say the same...!

See sig!

I don't blog, but I'm giving some serious consideration to blocking India, Egypt, and China altogether.

To much coming in from those countries with nothing in return, and I'm tired of banning individual IPs.

I ban

India
Pakistan
Egypt
China

Well redirect them to a sponsor on the off chance of a sale, not made one in the 8 months the ban has been in-place.

You could start with all muslim countries plus where porn is banned,kind a pointless to have such traffic.
Tho when it comes to ru it is better to redirect to proper sponsor,some of them pays a lot of money per pps on russian traffic.

Korea is also another good one to bad.

Careful of off site redirects. Google's been cracking down on that lately.

I also have A LOT of this trackback spam shit. especially on one single post, it´s years old. I hate to see that on my stats. I think only 10% of traffic on this project is real, the rest are chinese trackback hits and a lot categorized as "unknown". It´s really annoying.

I already tried to block lots of IP´s via htaccess, with plugins, but somehow it doesn´t work at all and I gave up :)

Instead of banning these countries traffic, send to us and we will convert these for you. Conversion rate will be high but instead of banning them send to us and you will enough income from your useless bandwidth eater traffic. We love to take them all!