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[Smackdown!] Is Google Referrer Spamming Too Now? | Smackdown!: Assuming that the reasoning is the same that MSN used, I fully understand the rationale behind it. I just don’t agree with it.

[Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing] Is Google Referrer Spamming To Detect Spam?: Because this experiment was developed in response to an urgent situation we moved quickly and as a result used an incorrect Google search referrer which we’re now working to fix. Thanks for calling this issue to our attention and we apologize for any confusion we may have caused.

[onecoolsitebloggingtips] Trackback and Pingback Spam: What to do? « onecoolsitebloggingtips: On the wordpress.com support forum I have even witnessed Staff politely posting and itemizing the so-called false positives in the belly of Akismet,  and recounting the words  that indicate it came from spam factories ( acne prevention, viagra, casino and/or buy drugs online pharamaceutical spam). Even after we Volunteers and Staff explain that the very worst of the spam that can bring down the whole site is removed from their moderation queue some newbies are still unhappy about not being able to see it.

[Webmasters] TOPSITES Referrer Spam up my nerves: There may be many who already know what I’m talking about, but for those who are still in the blues, when I say referrer spam, it means that when I check my web traffic, I see the referring URL of the website from where a visitor landed on my site. Lately, I have noticed an increasing trend of referring URLs that have nothing to do with my website.

[Software, Games, Internet, Website, Scripts, PC Tools and more - 4usoftware.com] b2evolution 3.3.2 | Software, Games, Internet, Website, Scripts ...: · Multiple blogs - Install b2evolution once and use it for 2, 3, 10, 100 or even 1000 blogs at the same time. Integrated stats - b2evo will show you activity graphs for each blog, including robots, RSS Readers and browser hits Broken down by referrers, searches, direct accesses, self-referred, etc.

[jotsheet] Proposal on referrer spam: Background and blacklists - jotsheet: With the introduction several weeks ago of rel="nofollow", you can also rob the spammers of PageRank at the link-level, not just the page-level using robots.txt. All links referrer section of your website linking to externals websites should carry the rel="nofollow" attribute, without question.

[Family Household] www.theinvestblog.com - Referrer Spammers | Family Household: You’re the victim of referral spam. It’s not all that new to the internet and In fact, referral spam was used by big corporations and seo’s to help improve a company’s pr back in 1997.

[Web tourist destination] Nofollow 101 - Understanding The Nofollow Tag | Web tourist ...: Originally, the rel=”nofollow” attribute was added to discourage comment spam in blogs. Links with nofollow should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine. From the Google Blog: From now on, when Google sees the attribute ... This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists. From Google Answers: ...

[trick77.com] How to prevent referer spam | trick77.com: Every time somebody clicks a link on a website, the browser sends the originating URL (the URL of the web page that hosts the link) to the target web server. This referer information can be parsed with web server log statistic software to show the webmaster where the web site’s visitors originated from.

[BuddyPress Forums » Recent Posts] What do your spam signups look like - BuddyPress.org | Community ...: Interesting is that I notice in my stats some ip found my site by searching for “proudly powered by WordPress MU and BuddyPress”.That could be a reason that this particular bot is finding and attacking bussypress installs.

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