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Weird UTM Sources

Anybody else get weird traffic that uses UTM sources like mbub.dbz or tbbtyf.dbz? I've googled them, but get no results. What gives?

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Simon Chiu

I think whoever is doing this is trying to get you to visit those sites. It’s a marketing tactic, probably.

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Helen Author

Ah, gotcha. Thanks. I wish they stop. I don't want to waste fullstory sessions on them.

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Simon Chiu

@helengriffinjr Yeah it's not super annoying, but unnecessary. I prefer cold emails because at least it gives me a chance to know what they're building and perhaps why I should take a look.

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Helen Author

@geetfun yeah, gonna take @marian2js advice and filter out the nonsense. There's more important problems I need to solve anyways.

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Sergio Mattei

I've had strange hostnames taking up my CNAME DNS, not sure if related but interesting nonetheless.

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Helen Author

How did they do that?

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Sergio Mattei

@helengriffinjr You can set a domain to point to any CNAME hostname you want, and they did that.

Check out http://mbcherohub.club/

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Mariano Pardo 👨‍💻

I had a similar problem with different domains, I just filter them out, most analytics tools allow this.

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Helen Author

Yeah, I might do that and filter them out. They're taking too much of my cognitive space anyways when I'm reviewing my reports.

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Lluís Montull

I've got a lot of visits from "android app" but it doesn't say which. Anyone having the same?

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Helen Author

Nah, all desktop traffic for me. Maybe use Semrush to check for any weird backlinks.

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