Title: Fake Traffic Blaster Author: Hesham Zebida Published: February 21, 2012 Last modified: February 21, 2012 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/fake-traffic-blaster/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=508032) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/fake-traffic-blaster_c6c6c7.svg) # Fake Traffic Blaster By [Hesham Zebida](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hishaman/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/fake-traffic-blaster.0.1.zip) * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/fake-traffic-blaster/#description) * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/fake-traffic-blaster/#reviews) * [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/fake-traffic-blaster/#installation) * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/fake-traffic-blaster/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fake-traffic-blaster/) ## Description The [Fake Traffic Blaster](http://faketrafficblaster.com/) is a lightweight plugin that protects WordPress from fake traffic by redirecting suspicious visitors away from your blog. #### What is Fake Traffic Fake traffic is simply a simulation, it is a black hat technique that allow you to generate traffic to your blog, but this traffic is not real, This means it is generating by a bot or a software, no humans are involved, thus no conversion. The reason is to game the statistics, and show that you are getting a lot of traffic. So, We hope you understand the fact that Fake Traffic is something you really do not want to get on your blog. #### What type of Fake Traffic we are talking about here? Black hat tools used in such attacks usually use OLEs/OCX objects to enable certain functionality in their tools. In Windows that is Internet Explorer APIs. The API will make http requests look like as if they were coming from an IE browser. #### Why Would Someone Send Your Blog Fake Traffic? This could be a serious attack from one of your competitors who wants to hurt your blog reputation, of course if this happened to you, then no doubt you would like to know who is this competitor! But it is almost impossible to know, so do not wast your time on this, and focus on solving the problem and protecting your blog. Read the story behind [Fake Traffic](http://www.famousbloggers.net/fake-traffic.html) and th creations of the plugin. #### How Fake Traffic Can Hurt Your Blog? * Hijack your blog ranking in search engine. * Hurt your blog stats being showing fake results. * Disable your blog by exceed your hosting bandwidth quota. * Disable your shared hosting account for extensive use of CPU resources. * Get your Google AdSense account suspended (Read: [Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center](http://www.google.com/ads/adtrafficquality/). * Affect your business reputation and integrity. * And, more… So, it is a good idea to install the Fake Traffic Blaster plugin, and protect your blog from such attacks. This plugin is coded by [Famous Bloggers](http://www.famousbloggers.net/) and [Bloggers Network](http://bloggersnetwork.net/). ## Screenshots * [[ * Settings page ## Installation 1. Upload `plugin-name.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Enable the pluing from WordPress > Settings > Fake Traffic Blaster. 4. Optional: Create an empty dumb html page, upload it to the root of your blog, then add its URL in the Redirect URL field. 5. Relax, and enjoy a Fake TRaffic free blog. ## FAQ What the Fake Traffic Bluster plugin does? Protect WordPress blogs from fake traffic. Is it going to work with my WordPress blog? Yes. What is Fake Traffic anyways? Fake traffic is simply a simulation, it is a black hat technique that allow you to generate traffic to your blog, but this traffic is not real! This means it is generating by a bot or a software, no humans are involved, thus no conversion. The reason is to game the statistics, and show that you are getting a lot of traffic. How to check on whether I am subject to such attack? Black hat tools used in such attacks usually use OLEs/OCX objects to enable certain functionality in their tools. In Windows that’s Internet Explorer APIs. The API will make http requests look like as if they were coming from an IE browser. Therefore, if you experience a jump 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. Nevertheless, an experienced hacker would use more advanced techniques to disguise him/herself. How this plugin works? The plugin simply do a few checks and redirect any suspicious visits a way from your blog. I am having a problem getting it to work Contact us via the [Fake Traffic Blaster](http://faketrafficblaster.com/) site. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Fake Traffic Blaster” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Hesham Zebida ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hishaman/) * [ mohamedosam ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mohamedosam/) [Translate “Fake Traffic Blaster” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/fake-traffic-blaster) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fake-traffic-blaster/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/fake-traffic-blaster/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/fake-traffic-blaster/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/fake-traffic-blaster/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.1 first release ## Meta * Version **0.1** * Last updated **14 years ago** * Active installations **10+** * WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **3.3.2** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/fake-traffic-blaster/) * Tags * [blog traffic](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/blog-traffic/)[seo](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/) [traffic](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/traffic/)[web traffic](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/web-traffic/) * [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/fake-traffic-blaster/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fake-traffic-blaster/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fake-traffic-blaster/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Hesham Zebida ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hishaman/) * [ mohamedosam ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mohamedosam/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fake-traffic-blaster/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](http://faketrafficblaster.com/about/donate/)