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BuzzMoo.com[BuzzMoo.com] It’sa script that filters out referral spam by making sure the incoming link is actually from where it says it is. It’s also got handy blacklist/whitelist functions. I understand it’s pretty popular and that it will make significant ...

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Affiliates Information Blog[Affiliates Information Blog] Create A.htaccess File Without Referral Spam: 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.

Carlo Mendozahttp://xiirus.net/articles/article-live-search-referral-spam-m8ig0.aspx [Carlo Mendoza] Live Search Referral Spam: This blog gets decent traffic from Google and Yahoo!, and a little bit from Live, but Live is just an oddball. I thought I was getting traffic from people actually using the search engine, but my instinct said otherwise.

Rob Ferrer's Thoughts and Writings[Rob Ferrer's Thoughts and Writings] search.live.com Referral Spam: explanation (including instructions on how to block it), which partially explains them, but the Microsoft response is clearly rubbish. As far as I’m concerned, this is just referrer spam, and another reason not to use Live Search!

MAKE MONEY WITH INTERNEThttp://rainder.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/3-simple-ways-to-make-money-with-internet/ [MAKE MONEY WITH INTERNET] 2 simple ways to make money with Internet: For each person you send to myLot you will receive a bonus equal to 25 % of their discussion and image earnings.

Affordable Internet Marketing[Affordable Internet Marketing] Testimonials, Feedback, Referrals and Bonuses: But unfortunately they are increasingly regarded upon as spam these days. That’sa real shame, as the concept these scripts are based on, still is powerful.

SEO Forums: Your seo discussion forumhttp://www.seoforumz.info/58304-re-referer-spamming-blackhatbootcamp-com.html [SEO Forums: Your seo discussion forum] Re: Referer spamming - blackhatbootcamp.com: If you can manage to lease a part of Storm botnet, try the referral spam. You will be surprised by the results.

Try-Or-Die[Try-Or-Die] 5 Powerfull Tips For Optimizing Your Viral Marketing Campaigns: In order to prevent spam-like distribution of the message marketers should cap the incentive to a certain amount. For example: they offer an incentive of 20 percent off referrers’ next purchase if they forward the message to 5 friends.

Internet Marketing Access - Full Access To Today's Internet Marketing Strategies[Internet Marketing Access - Full Access To Today's Internet Marketing Strategies] How To Use PRStorm - The Myth”¦Legend, Just Another Spam Tool: This information will then be stored in the Referrers.txt file located in the same directory as the program. When using the software you can mix up the referring sites from your site so it looks like different pages are bringing in the traffic.  Examples could be:

HaKwArA - Forum Marochttp://www.hakwara.com/web-mastering/vbulletin-3-7-x-mod-hack-big-archive-13795.html [HaKwArA - Forum Maroc] Vbulletin 3.7.x Mod/Hack (Big Archive): Redirect to Member Profile after Login (beta) Redline's Advanced Memberlist Options Reduce ibproArcade best scores of all time Referral Statistics Referrals in Postbit Referrer in Memberinfo Referrer Statistics Register to view all text .

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zenhttp://www.hanselman.com/blog/PreventingCommentTrackbackAndReferralSpamInDasBlog.aspx [Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen] Preventing Comment, Trackback and Referral Spam in dasBlog: In fact, if you use this technique, you may actually find yourself TRYING to get spammed just so you can see a comment or two. You'll know you're really working this technique effectively when you find yourself replying to the spam with a "Thanks for reading!

Favorite {fvrit} Bloghttp://fvrit.com/archive/2008/03/09/dealing-with-comment-spammers-ndash-there-is-a-way.aspx [Favorite {fvrit} Blog] Dealing with comment spammers - there is a way: The automated comment and referral spammers are much harder to deal with as often multiple IP addresses and URL’s are used and it is akin to playing whack-a-mole as they are coming from so many different addresses. With most blog applications, you have several options to keep the spammy comments from appearing on your site.

The Blog From Another Dimension[The Blog From Another Dimension] Blog Spam Solution: Some people, happy to receive links, will obligingly set up top-referrer lists on their web pages, with links back to the nice people who sent visitors their way, as a way of saying 'thanks.' Spammers again take advantage of this by generating bogus automated 'visits' that carry falsified link data, making it look like hundreds of visitors came to the blog from the spam site, when in reality, no link and no visitors actually exist. But this faked referral spam will get them on the referrer's list, and give them even more Google Juice.

Year of the Code Monkeyhttp://blog.borngeek.com/2006/03/31/dealing-with-referral-spam/ [Year of the Code Monkey] Dealing With Referral Spam: Over the past week or two, I’ve noticed increasing amounts of bogus referral links in my website statistics. This so called “referral spam” has nearly gotten out of control, so I’m employing yet another WordPress plugin (Referrer .

DevLife[DevLife] Attack on the Attack of the referral spam: I had thousands of referrer spams on my dasBlog blog overnight. Now I have just installed ReverseDOS from AngryPets.com over there and am linking to see what will happen.

Aimless Movie[Aimless Movie] Referral spam: Please help!: If anyone knows how to combat referral spam (or referrer spam), please help me. I spend about an hour every day sorting through my referrer logs and adding new misspellings and whatnot to my .

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