Targeting Spam > Google Says, Referrer Spam Does Not Hurt Your Google Rankings
[Search Engine Roundtable] The technique involves making repeated web site requests using a fake referrer url that points to the site the spammer wishes to advertise. Sites that publicize their access logs, including referrer statistics, will then end up linking to the spammer's site, which will in turn be indexed by the search engines as they crawl the access logs.
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[Spiracyworld] www.theinvestblog.com - Referrer and comment Spammers | Spiracyworld: In a way, its a compliment. It means your website ranks high in the search engines for whichever term the spammer put into their software to go search for sites for!
[Flameeyes's Weblog] Flameeyes's Weblog : Why users shouldn't register to general sites: from the other, even the least sophisticated anti-spam system can detect a handful of known-bad referrers (I have my own blacklist for this blog, it helps reducing the amount of bandwidth used for serving content to spam-bots), and you cannot add to that list general news, portal or blog sites that allow users to register, at least not easily (you can possibly use a regular expression to solve the problem, so to only reject requests coming from users’ pages, rather than from the whole site that might actually point to your server, but it adds
[Business center] Create A .htaccess File Without Referral Spam: If a site being spammed runs a web server log analyzing software, access to the URL in the top referrer's section is handily obtained by the spammer. A serious consequence of referrer spam is that the process is often performed via an .
[Internet Marketing Digital Publishing] Produce A .htaccess File While not Referral Spam: A coalition of blogging and search engine companies have joined along to support an HTML attribute designed primarily to combat comment spam but have high potentials moreover for effective use against referral spam. This attribute is referred to as the rel =”no follow” is being praised by many bloggers as the final answer for the prevailing problem.
[Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en]] Microsoft's Bing Spams Web Sites with Referrer SPAM and Net ...: The crawler is known as MSNBot, from the days when the recently renamed Bing search engine was known as MSN Search. When that crawler gathers a web page, it sometimes leaves behind “referrer” information in a web sites logs ” fake referrer information, that is.
[best seo web] Black Hat SEO Link Spamming Techniques Through World-Writable Pages: Margarette Mcbride is a lyricist of Optimind web design and SEO, Web Design and SEO company in the Philippines. Optimind specializes in building and promoting websites that are designed for the conversion.
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[Dave Writes - Creative Life] Take Responsibility for Spam Comments on your Blogs: But the reason spammers comment on blogs is to improve search engine rankings. Links from blogs to web sites increase the ranking of those sites, because search engines believe sites with many inbound links are more authoritative and creditable.
[TechMynd] Stop Comment Spam from WordPress Blog Completely - Security - TechMynd: Use WP-Ban, a very powerful WordPress plugin which helps you easily ban users by IP, IP Range, host name and referrer url from visiting your WordPresss blog and prevent spam from ever reaching your comments. It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name or referrer url tries to visit your blog.
[Tricks Machine] 15 Must Have WordPress Plugins | Tricks Machine: Anyone who wants to take advantage of every aspect of SEO for their blog, including making Google happy by submitting proper sitemaps, should use this plugin on their blog.This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.Good news, this plugin is free for everyone!
[RealTown] Social Media Marketing: Google first announced the nofollow tag in their blog in January 2005 http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html Why it started: To discourage comment ... it a noteworthy vote, which is especially useful in "free for all" link-type setups or anywhere where non-edited links may appear, like sites that show referrers or track backs, or have un-moderated comments on their blogs. ...
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[CentreSource Interactive Agency Blog] Tracking down the source of Referrer Spam | Miscellaneous ...: Nowhere on this page (or I doubt the whole site) are you actually linking to my referral page (which has to do with fan fiction)- so I think someone’s screwing with you by referrer spamming under your url. Thought I’d drop you a ‘heads up’.
[Webroot Threat Blog] Spammers Use Bing to Bypass Filters, Spam Bad Links « Webroot ...: [...] Researchers at Webroot Software discovered a spam campaign earlier this week that used the search engine’s own redirection mechanism and a link-shrinking technique to send people to spam Web pages, according to a post on the Webroot threat blog. [...]
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