Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
[TheGoogleCache] Top Searches Google Should Suppress: Google’s massive database of anything and everything coupled with powerful search technologies have utterly destroyed privacy as we once knew it. An entire community of Google-Enabled hacking and mayhem has arisen around the search giant, including the popular johnny.ihackstuff.com .
[ JohnTP’s Home] 12 Tips for increasing your Blogs Readers: Well this is very important, I write about technology but I write up my own content, I try to make it a bit interesting for people to come and read, that’s the key as you will get lots of posts all around the blogosphere about the same thing, so you have to be unique in some way.
[billtrippe.com] A Few Changes: They only go back a few months right now, but that will grow as I have more time to re-tag older entries. I also have a nascent category on RSS, as I expect to write more about that in the future.
[Manimalia] Commentariat Update: Movable type does a site-allows-comments-check before the comments receiver (mt-comments.cgi) will operate. By turning on site comments, the spammers just navigate through your sitemap and push spam into the comments receiver (the bastards) MT will kill the comment if not allowed in the post, or it will save the comment and complete its normal posting checks.
[Coldforged.org] coldforged.org » Blog Archive » Killing Referral Spam: on their pages, so any referrer spammers will get links and corresponding Google Juice.* Many sites have public links to their referral pages which can be spidered.* Site stats can be bloated by referral spammers so that getting an accurate record of your readership is all but impossible (hat-tip to Rudy).* Obviously the more referral spam hits you get the more bandwidth that gets used. For those on limited hosting plans or for hosts themselves, this can be costly and burdensome (hat-tip to glo).* Some blogs have scripts to pick up the most common referral addresses and link back to them (hat-tip to Shadow).
[Underscorebleach.net] Proposal on referrer spam: I recently implemented Brad Choate's MT-DSBL, a plugin that checks a commenter's IP against the blacklist maintained at DSBL (a service that keeps a list of open relays). I believe the general idea of combatting comment spam by harnessing the DSBL or DNS-based blackhole lists could also be used to ferret out referral spam.
[Wild-mind.net] Wild Mind » Referral Spam: Comment, Trackback, and Referral Spam. Author: Glo Posted: February 6, 2005 ... Here is another blog fighting the referral/comment spam problem. ...
[Shahine.com] shahine.com/omar/ - Referral Spam and Movable Type Blacklist: The nice thing about this is that the Blacklist is maintained in real time, and you won't have to rely just on content filtering (the stuff that Scott did) but you'll get a pretty long and decent blacklist of bad sites. So far, in the past few hours I've gotten 100% of the referral spam and no false positives...
[Sifry.com] Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere August 2005 Part 4: Spam ...: Much as it's hip and cool to blame the spammers, what that guy said was true: Just as we invite virus hacks and crackers by running an O/S with gaping security holes, we also invite our own content exploitation running public websites with gaping publishing holes, and fixing it ad-hoc reactively and piece-meal is not the way to do it any more than securing Windows with Update Packs ;)
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Referral Spam, Targeting Spam