Targeting Spam > Did Microsoft Finally Fix The Fake Referrer Spam Issue?
[Search Engine Roundtable] Brett Yount from Microsoft's Bing Webmaster team has commented here and in a Bing Forum thread saying the issue with the fake referrers being generated by MSNBot has finally been fixed. By finally, I mean, an issue dating back over.
[Previous] Bing's Fake Referrer Spam Back, Now Hiding Referrer Now...
[Next] 12 Vital Tips and Tools to Combat Comment Spam in WordPress .....
Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
[Search Engine Roundtable] Bing's Fake Referrer Spam Back, Now Hiding Referrer Now?: We had confirmed reports from webmasters that Bing was no longer showing up in the log files with fake referrers. But I am seeing a new report that the log files are showing Microsoft Bing IP addresses in them but without referrer data.
[Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en]] Microsoft's Bing Spams Web Sites with Referrer SPAM and Net ...: For over two years now, Microsofts search engine has been generating fake information that can make site owners think theyre getting strange search traffic (including porn traffic), when they are not. Its time for this to come to an end.
[Search Engine Roundtable] More Cloaking Tests In Form Of Fake Referrers From Microsoft Bing?: Program Manager from the Bing Webmaster Team said, "I have an idea of what's causing this and trying to fix it on the backend." What that idea is, he did not disclose, but there is speculation that these are more cloaking spam tests from Microsoft.
[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Nginx: How To Stop Referrer Spam With Keyword Filtering: Brett Yount from Microsoft's Bing Webmaster team has co.. http://bit.ly/ZIMdb; jamhil SEARCH Did Microsoft Finally Fix The Fake Referrer Spam Issue?: Brett Yount from Microsoft's Bing Webmaste..... http://ff.im/-7qu4j ...
[Live Search Webmaster Center Blog] Bing - Live Search and cloaking detection - Webmaster Blog - Bing ...: Dann404, I'm not a MS hater, I don't do so called black hat SEO, but my crap-o-meter tells me that this method is, well, um, questionable to put it politely. There's no need for a huge red herring (aka mass referrer spam) to obfuscate the not that obvious cloaking detection.
[Technologies > Computers > search engines] Search Engine Roundtable: Microsoft MSN Search Archives: Yesterday, Microsoft said that they have "started considering sitemaps in robots.txt and will extend this to most sites within the next few months." Meaning, they are experimenting locating Sitemaps files if they are included in your robots.txt file. But finally, they have admitted that they do not and have not offered "the ability to publish sitemaps via ping or webmaster tools." In addition, they said, they "do not necessarily take into account sitemaps listed in robots.txt files right at this moment."
[MorrowTech.co.uk] Marketing Your Business The Right Way | MorrowTech.co.uk: For a minimal fee you can hire someone in India or Malaysia to add spammy comments for forums and blogs all over the world in an attempt to promote your site. Some of these people will even have automated systems for doing this (this spam bots mentioned earlier).
[TechNews AM] Bing's Fake Referrer Spam Back, Now Hiding Referrer Now?... (SEO ...: The years and years of Microsoft polluting web logs with fake referrer data, which they have 'fixed' numerous times, including a couple weeks ago. We had confirmed reports from webmasters that Bing was no longer showing up in the log...
[Breaking News] Detroit mayor meets with youth concerned about jobs, crimes and ...: Detroit mayor: Hard-hit city needs federal fundsDETROIT ” Mayor Dave Bing hopes long-term solutions to Detroit's problems arise from the National Summit being held in the city, but said short-term financial help likely only will come from the federal government. The pro basketball Hall-of-Famer and newly elected mayor said Tuesday that holding the conference on manufacturing, technology, energy and the environment in Detroit gives leaders from elsewhere a view from the front lines.
[Computer Blogs On Blog Catalog] MotherBoard I'd Like to F Blog - Information, Comments, Reviews ...: So, this is the third Gawker post in a row, but it’s just so frustrating when they’re laying people off and shuttering websites when they pass up BLATANT opportunities for revenue like this: Notice there is no referral code there. For ev...
[Atomic Overmind Press] Atomic Overmind Press » Blog Archive » Foreshadowing Ragnarok #5 ...: Whats left of Wales and Cornwall still swear to King Henry IX in Sydney, as does Australia, and a third of India, and whats left of Canada, and South Africa in its own accent. The battered British Empire made an armistice with Japan through gritted teeth, and looks at independent “Congress India” with bitter regret.
[Ariel Publicity - Blog - Cyber PR] Feature Article: Promoting Your Music On iTunes - Ariel Publicity ...: Another thing is that I have seen a lot more traffic to my personal website, so I think people are listening to longer excerpts there and the whole songs can be heard on my myspace page which has also seen more traffic lately. People dont buy something unless they listen to it first.
[K's Weblog] AnkhSVN and Visual Studio 2008 | K's Weblog: I was wanting to get some source control in place for a few of my personal projects. I chose to go with Subversion for my source control server for a few reasons, not the least of which was that my hosting company supports auto-configuration of SVN repositories, so I was able to get that set up in just a couple of minutes. That left me some time to contemplate how I would access the repository from the client.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Referrer Spam, Targeting Spam