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[Wild Mind] Search Marketing Techniques Equals Spam!: Search Marketing Techniques Equals Spam! Filed under: Comment Spam Referral Spam ”” Glo @ 7:28 pm I found an excellent article written by Alan Perkins on Search Marketing Techniques, Deceptive Advertising Laws and Other Laws. Since we bloggers are affected by deception marketing practices by deceptive SEOs (Search Engine Optimizers) and so

 [coldforged.org] Referrer spam update: 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 Ruby with a “B” ).* Obviously the more referral spam hits you get the more bandwidth that gets used.

[Wild-mind.net] Wild Mind » archives » Referral Spam: Author: Glo Posted: January 16, 2005 Category: Referral Spam .Here is another blog fighting the referral/comment spam problem.

 [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).

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Referral Spam, Targeting Spam