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[Tsohost.co.uk Forums - UK Web Hosting] Referrer spam is pretty old hat these days and Google has caught on - webmasters can expect significant SEO penalties for being caught for using techniques like this. Furthermore, the links themselves are extremely low quality with very poor anchor text.

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