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[Comments for Perishable Press] The Ultimate Referrer Blacklist, Featuring Over 8000 Banned ...: For the uninitiated, in teh language of teh Web, a referrer is the online resource from whence a visitor happened to arrive at your site. For example, if Johnny the Wonder Parrot was visiting the Mainstream Media website and happened to follow a link to your site (of all places), you would look at your access logs, notice Johnny’s visit, and speak out loud (slowly): “hmmm..

[.NET slave] Worst spam day so far: I have a referrer log and every time a visitor enters my website with a referrer in the request headers, that request get’s logged so I can see where my visitors come from. Spam bots know this and send requests with fake referrer headers so that I might follow one of those referrer URLs to check it out.

[getclicky.com/blog] Microsoft's spam bot has been blocked | Clicky Blog: Except, I'd bet that whoever programmed this did so in a rather clumsy way where they probably take a list of the top million (or so) keyword searches. Then their spider first spiders the top 10, or top 20 results for each of those searches on live.com Next, the spider then similates a click on that page to get to the actual site, where it then grabs that page as a part of what is really an "audit", just like the Google audit.

[The Marketr] Microsoft To Fix Fake Referrer Data From Live Search | The Marketr: Since August 2007 Microsoft has been sending out weird referrer data to people’s log files. The spam like referrers were official cloaking tests from Microsoft and should have been resolved in 2007.

[Dvdrip.0o0.in -All Full movies,games,books,softwares download center and internet knowledgebase.] Hi,Please be aware that we track referrer spam and...: Because, you dont harm anyone's site/blog and this definitely works because, about 75-80% visitors of any blog/site installed with Live feeds tracking system like FEEDJIT are usually curious to see that from where the other visitors are arriving. They clicks and one more click is recorded in your account.

[SearchBrains] Search Engine News As It Happens - Search Brains: Microsoft To Fix Fake Referrer Data From Live Search Source: Search Engine Roundtable URL: http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/fyYhzfstlIw/019861.html. Since August 2007 Microsoft has been sending out weird referrer data to people's log files. The spam like referrers were official cloaking tests from Microsoft and should have been resolved in 2007. But they came back in January 2008 and. ... click here to read this Search Engine Roundtable article. ...

[Wohill - Creative design and development] Create a referrer list on your blog in 10 minutes. - PHP ...: I am and have been, for much longer than 6 years, aware of what referrers are and what can be done by Spammers. This is just a tip of how to do it for anyone interested that might not have the knowledge.

[Advertising Digital Media] Spam targeting search engines (Spamdexing) | Advertising Digital Media: Spamdexing (a portmanteau of spamming and indexing) refers to the practice on the World Wide Web of deliberately modifying HTML pages to increase the chance of them being placed high on search engine relevancy lists. People who do this are called search engine spammers.

[Web Security] Web Security » Blog Archive » Protect Your website from comment spam?: SPAM bots attempting to exploit forms are poorly designed, making them easy to outsmart. If the SPAM bots do not fake a referrer, you can stop the bot with this code in an .

[HyveUp] HyveUp: Microsoft Promotes Live With Spambots: I am actually very surprised that such a big name in the industry would use such an obvious spamming method. This is such a risk in terms of brand reputation, I don't see how it can even be tolerated.

[Marketing Defined] Stop Referer SPAM in Web Statistics: Are your web statistics being corrupted by illegal Referrer Spam from adult or websites containing Porn, Casino and Mortgage information — and apart from the drain on costly server resources, are you concerned the Search Engines will penalise you for this association?

[SEOBlog] SEOBlog » Blog Archive » Get Qualified Backlinks for Free-Part 1: Referer Spamming - Quite a simple method and a software called PRstorm thats found around this board should easily get you started, you add in the urls you want to referer spam, and the ones you want to be linked. This shows up in referer logs and you can easily get a fresh list by searching sites with referer logs with good PR or those sites with the My top referers list.

[Small Website Hosting - Internet Marketing and web development] Small Website Hosting - Internet Marketing and web development ...: The most elegant way of doing this is by creating an application which when run will visit your blog , and leave a custom referer in your logs. You can do this by changing the HTTP referer, whic identifies from the point of view of an internet webpage of the resource which links to it.

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