Targeting Spam > The new wave of HTTP referrer spam

Brandon Checketts[Brandon Checketts] I would argue that the real intent of these spammers is to get the website owner who is looking at the stats, to click on their links. Most users who have a blog or small website check their statistics often, and are really interested when they find a new site that appears to be linking to theirs.

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Welcome to Simon Philp's Bloghttp://siphilp.co.uk/archive/2008/01/24/referrer-spam-who-wants-it.aspx [Welcome to Simon Philp's Blog] Referrer Spam who wants it?: 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.

blog2life.co.ukhttp://www.blog2life.co.uk/blog-spam/blog-referral-spam-the-signs-and-how-to-avoid-it/ [blog2life.co.uk] Blog Referral Spam: The Signs And How To Avoid It: Well you’d be surprised the excitement of having your website featured in a video could be on reason, as I have found on other sites the people have presumed that anyone in their blogshpere is their friend, right? Well It would appear not, as you know never to download any dodgy looking files from your email in box we need to take the same approach with this new form of spam and be more wary.

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SBI! Forums Latest Posts[SBI! Forums Latest Posts] What is Referrer Spam? (ie sviollet.com, tvsetmp3.com): On Friday 18 January 2008 21:06:35, Kurt from cat-lovers-only.com posted What is Referrer Spam? (ie sviollet.com, tvsetmp3.com) in Traffic Stats HQ Forum.

Christian Schenkhttp://www.christianschenk.org/blog/two-nasty-ways-to-promote-your-blog/ [Christian Schenk] Two nasty ways to promote your blog: This way the request will generate an entry in the referrer or keyphrase listing of the statistics tool running on the target site. This are the two nasty ways to promote your website: send requests with the referrer set to the address of your website or to some Google search that led you to the target site.

SBI! Forums Latest Posts[SBI! Forums Latest Posts] What is Referrer Spam? (ie sviollet.com, tvsetmp3.com): On Saturday 19 January 2008 02:34:29, Terry from yourlanguageguide.com posted "What is Referrer Spam? (ie sviollet.com, tvsetmp3.com)" in "Traffic Stats HQ" Forum.

blogher - Home Page Editor Postshttp://www.blogher.com/flickr-keeps-getting-better [blogher - Home Page Editor Posts] Flickr Keeps Getting Better: Stats are updated once a day, and do not include your views of your own photos. Other Flickr members will not be displayed as referrers, and search engine referrers are counted as a group, which includes major engines Yahoo, Google, AOL, MSN, Ask.com and live.com.

SBI! Forums Latest Posts[SBI! Forums Latest Posts] What is Referrer Spam? (ie sviollet.com, tvsetmp3.com): On Saturday 19 January 2008 03:51:30, Kurt from cat-lovers-only.com posted "What is Referrer Spam? (ie sviollet.com, tvsetmp3.com)" in "Traffic Stats HQ" Forum.

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http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/02/03/geek-3/ [Matt's Blog] Geek: I no longer have good stats on how many comments I’m bouncing, because the majority are being cut off at the firewall level, and most that make it through get tripped up in a simple htaccess rule (intercepting requests for the comment-posting form with no referrer), which isn’t logged. So today I went in and banned the IPs that had made it through one way or another.

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