Referrer Spam Spam Abuse
Referrer Spam
Some websites collect data on visitors to their website. One bit of gathered data is the address of the website the visitors came from. This address can be faked, and referrer logs are increasingly being filled with "visits" from sites with innocent-looking addresses - but they are actually porn or herbal medicine or other spammy sites. The spam might not be noticed unless they are in the top 10 or top 20 visitors of a site -- so they relentlessly visit a site in order to push their address to the top of the analysis chart. This is referrer spamming.
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- Brief description of the technique and the purpose, with some examples.
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- Blatant referrer spam may be evolving into more a subtle game.
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- Strange things are afoot in blogland. Owners of weblogs have recently noticed that their referral logs have become the newest target for spam.
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- Blog entry discussing ongoing problems and solutions.
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- Talks about companies like mastodonte.com and their business models of spamming referrer logs.
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- An early article noting website visits from spammers.
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- Blog entry showing javascript trickery in trackback and comment links.
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- A weird referrer entry prompts some detective work and a log sanitization spree.
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- Forum thread about why you should not publish your website statistics online. Namely, referrer spam.
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- Blog entry showing how it's not just junk sites trying to get links.
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- Blog entry with a few coding suggestions and examples to thwart the spammers.
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