Targeting Spam > 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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