Targeting Spam > February 19, 2010
TOPSITES Referrer Spam getting up my nerves | Share Commons
[Webmasters] 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.
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February 05, 2010
Preventing Referrer Spam | DALESANDRO.NET
[DALESANDRO.NET] There is a plugin called Bad Behavior for WordPress that helps reduce referrer spam. As long as your log files are properly secured and not publicly available,
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Posted at 04:34 PM
January 29, 2010
Referrer Spam
[All Best News] The more inconvenient effect of referrer spamming would have to be the pop ups and junk mails. Once a user has been identified, the referrer spam will never cease to intervene with any online activity the user may be engaged in.
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Posted at 04:35 PM
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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Posted at 04:33 PM
September 21, 2009
Bing's Fake Referrer Spam Back, Now Hiding Referrer Now?
[Search Engine Roundtable] We had confirmed reports from webmasters that Bing was no longer showing up in the log files with fake referrers. But I am seeing a new report that the log files are showing Microsoft Bing IP addresses in them but without referrer data.
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Posted at 04:05 PM
July 27, 2009
Live Referrer Spam
[Affiliate Marketing Forum - Net Affiliate Talk] Getting tired of my WP blogs (and I'm sure other sites) getting pounded with spam coming through the Live search engine.
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Posted at 04:03 PM
Bing promoted thanks to HTTP referrer SPAM
[Jeromakay] I’ve noticed this two weeks after bing was launched and I’m not sure how legit this is from Microsoft’s side.
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Posted at 04:02 PM
July 03, 2009
The Ultimate Referrer Blacklist, Featuring Over 8000 Banned ...
[Comments for Perishable Press] 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..
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Posted at 04:33 PM
June 12, 2009
Referrer Spam - From SEDO !!!!
[BFG's Blog» Referrer Spam - From SEDO !!!! : Courtesy of BFG 9000] Today I was casually reading through a list of referrers when I came across something that I presumed was referrer spam - I had a quick look at the site (so I can get an idea of who to add to my internal ’stab in the face with a rusty spoon’ list) &
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Posted at 04:35 PM
April 24, 2009
IHY: blocking referrer spam with htaccess
[Search Engine Roundtable] Referrer spam is the practice of sending fake visitors with fake referrers to web sites, to have your URL appear in their log files. This is done in the hope that search engines will find the links and boost the spamming site's rankings.
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Posted at 04:32 PM
February 23, 2009
Against my Better Judgement, publishing kolich.com Referrer Log Data
[Mark S. Kolich] However, before I published it, I took some time to crawl through the log and remove all obvious referrer spam. Many system administrators blindly publish complete referrer logs without stripping .
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Posted at 04:04 PM
January 19, 2009
Update on Pingdom Referrer Spam (how now brownpau)
[Untitled] The issue, "Pingdom," isn't the crawling, it's the spoofed referrer in the headers. You say that pingdom.com/monitor/whatever.com will eventually point to a working page, but right now it just rewrites to the front page of Pingdom, a page which does not actually link to the site being crawled.
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Posted at 04:05 PM
January 16, 2009
Stop Referrer Spam In Its Tracks
[Tips, Tools and Tutorials for Making Money with Adult Themed Blogs | Adult Blog Builder] Do you get ticked off with seeing referrer spam in your site stats? You know what I mean, those hits from some poker site or viagra site you see when you’re checking out your traffic logs. So how can you stop this type of spam?
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Posted at 04:33 PM
How to Stop Referrer Spam | Adult-Help
[Untitled] Are you annoyed with seeing referrer spam in your stats? You know, when you’re checking out your traffic logs and see hits from some poker site, or some viagra site?
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Posted at 04:32 PM
December 19, 2008
Adblock Plus and (a little) more: Microsoft joining the ranks of ...
[Adblock Plus and (a little) more] So, is Microsoft really that desperate? Do they have to resort to referrer spamming to increase the popularity of their search engine?
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Posted at 04:31 PM
October 10, 2008
Referrer Karma
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Posted at 04:33 PM
Create A.htaccess File Without Referral Spam
[Affiliates Information Blog] Any web browser or HTTP client is free to send a forged Referrer: header with any request to a web server. Spammers have taken advantage of the fact that there is no provision for authentication in SMPTP and have used the existing openness to specially craft request with their website in the Referrer: header.
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Posted at 04:32 PM
August 25, 2008
MSN Live Search Referrer SPAM
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April 28, 2008
Fighting Referrer Spam
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Posted at 04:03 PM
April 21, 2008
Wordpress plugin for referrer spam
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Posted at 04:05 PM
Is MSN Lying About Their Referrer Spam?
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Posted at 04:03 PM
March 07, 2008
How to stop referrer SPAM? Bug / Issues with AWSTATS?
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