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It is a neverending battle. By now, I probably have about 200 lines in my .htaccess file blocking various referrer spam sites. Yesterday, I recieved a message from a person who stumbled across my website while searching for "web developer toronto". This person was wondering "what exactly are these 'refs' and why are all these pornographic listings on my web site?". Very embarrassing, isn't it? The more I think about this, the more I get conviced that the refs page should be taken down. That wouldn't stop referral spam, but it would definitely prevent potentially embarrassing situtations.
:: Sasha, at 11:55 am on Sunday, 20. February 2005
I win battle against commentar-spam!
http://www.personalmag.co.yu/blog/?postid=455
:: Goran Aničić, at 05:08 pm on Sunday, 20. February 2005
Referral logs are problem because referrer spaming is interesting to spamers in two ways:
1. Bring them traffic directly from links.
2. Give them better ranking on all major search engines.
Referral logs have created referral spaming. Definitely I agree that refs/ page should not be public.
:: zoka, at 04:05 am on Monday, 21. February 2005
Ah, but they get the unsuspecting webmaster digging through his logs/stats for new backlinks too. I've taken to viewing any new referrer at arms length (like through wannabrowser) instead of looking directly.
:: linear, at 04:18 pm on Thursday, 24. February 2005
Useless scrawling facts:
Top 5 scrawlers:
(updated once a day)
556 Sasha
488 zoka
316 vitez-koja
235 Davor
58 mungos
