:: Personal website of a Toronto web designer
Lately » Referral Spam
The time has come to update my refs page, and add a filter against those pesky referral spammers who try to get a higher Google ranking. This method of spamming has become very popular lately. I decided to filter them using a simple PHP script, instead of blocking them via .htaccess file. Let's see how it works, not that I pretend to win this neverending battle.
More info, Wired News: When the Spam Hits the Blogs
:: Sasha, at 09:45 pm on Wednesday, 14. January 2004
Yes, I pointed it out in your babble section of the site but it is in serbian lenguage.
:: zoka, at 12:24 pm on Thursday, 15. January 2004
I spam the old-fashioned way, in your comments. ;)
What are your blocking criteria in .htaccess? Referrals from known bad domains? Did you get a list somewhere?
:: linear, at 11:31 pm on Thursday, 15. January 2004
I started with the list posted by Mark and modified it to suit my needs:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/0...go_to_hell
:: Sasha, at 01:15 am on Friday, 16. January 2004
An excellent tool to validate your block list is working correctly (for those too lazy to fire up cURL):
http://www.wannabrowser.com/
This is one handy widget that belongs in every webmaster's toolbox.
:: linear, at 09:47 am on Friday, 16. January 2004
Another tool I just ran across, this is excellent: http://joseluis.pellicer.org/ua/
:: linear, at 04:03 pm on Monday, 02. February 2004
Useless scrawling facts:
Top 5 scrawlers:
(updated once a day)
556 Sasha
488 zoka
316 vitez-koja
235 Davor
58 mungos
