Targeting Spam > Disney referral spamming?

Affiliate Marketing Journal[Affiliate Marketing Journal] Then I remembered another month where I had exactly 39 hits from StumbledUpon.com, an alleged social bookmarking site whose link in your referral stats takes you to a page which says, basically, "Look how much traffic we've already sent you - wouldn't you like to buy some more from us now?" Referral spam.

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http://www.coldforged.org [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).

Wild-mind.net[Wild-mind.net] Wild Mind » Referral Spam: I do understand the benefits a spammer gets from comment spamming but I didn’t understand the referral spam thingy, especially when a blog owner doesn’t .

Underscorebleach.nethttp://underscorebleach.net [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.

[Autosurf & Investments log] 12by12daily update: We have also had a number of complaints about members using SPAM to promote 12by12daily.  Members using SPAM run the risk of having their accounts deleted, with loss of all earnings, and the potential for legal action.  If you are using this form of promotion, Please stop.  It appears that Yahoo have already decided 12by12daily is a spamming site and has blocked our emails.  If you have a Yahoo account, you will need to set admin@12by12daily.net and support@12by12daily.net into your allowed addresses, or change your email address to another mail carrier.

[OnLine Money Ideas] 7 Powerful Ways To Make Money From Adsense Using... : It is not too difficult to quickly build a list that reaches a million or so email boxes and can thus give a lot of visibility and drive tons of highly targetd traffic to your Adsense site or sites. Probably the most popular place for doing this is at Yahoo groups, but there are a few others that you can find easily by using your favorite search engine.

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