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[JasonLau.biz] Referrer spam is when a person or bot fakes a link hit from another website to your website. So, when your logging script records the visit, it records the referring website address, which is also faked by the spammer. Typically, the referral URL address leads to pornographic websites or those selling pharmaceuticals.
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[Black Hat Forum Black Hat SEO] Referrer spam using Stat Blaster? - Black Hat Forum Black Hat SEO: Could it be possible to edit the URL list in Stat Blaster somehow so that it sends referrer spam? Or is there a tool that does the same job as PRStorm but works much faster?
[Joar Wandborg] Referral Spam? - Joar Wandborg: As soon as you have registered a website for Google Analytics you can get this referral spam. Somewhere in the world someone is executing the visitor analytic script and calculates the traffic code.
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[Black Hat Forum Black Hat SEO] [GET]Footprints for Finding "Referrer Spam" Sites (Ping Mode in ...: Now, you can't just use any old set of sites, and then have your site set to show as the referrer and expect to get results...why? Well, because the page that your site is going to show up on as the referring site has to be indexed and crawled by search engines...why?
[AffiliateSupportDesk.com» Affiliate Tips | Affiliate Support] Traffic And Linking Tool Tutorials|Backlink Tool | BACKLINK TOOL: Double Meta Refresh (DMR) - There are times in your online adventures when you need to *AHEM* blank the referring traffic location. An example of this is if you wanted to send people from Craigslist to a CPA offer that did not allow traffic from Craigslist.
[Indigo Jo Blogs] Indigo Jo Blogs ” Web stats spam: However, I am always most keen to see my referrer lists, to see who’s linking to my site, and lately I’ve noticed that these statistics are being filled up with sites which obviously have nothing to do with mine and had no reason to link to it. The past few months I’ve noticed that most of the sites which appear in my referrer lists (i.e.
[exploring the IT underworld] Fixing unknown referrals in Google Analytics or what it is called ...: The spammers can collect the GA accountID`s (e.g UA-0000000-1) in a number of ways and then can paste these accountID found above into GA tracking code hosted on their domains e.g. camera-digital.golbnet.com and then can send traffic to these internal pages.
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[eq-gcl.com] Is Microsoft spamming websites to boost its number | eq-gcl.com: IP addresses belonging to Microsoft are requesting pages from eKstreme.com and blogSci.com (my science blog) with HTTP referrer headers suggesting that the hits were from live.com searches. These referrer headers are spoofed as the keywords from these supposed searches are sometimes in no way related to the requested page.
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