[Gllug] What is this, a new spamming technique?

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:57:23AM +0000, will wrote:
> You can find a hell of a lot of website statistics online with no 
> password protection, referrer spam will get a site listed in these 
> statistics.  Many of these statistics pages will be indexed by google 
> and will therefore theoretically improve a sites googlerank as many 
> statistics reports will link back to the referring site.  I get these 
> all the time.

The problem is more general than this.  Many blogs used to list the
referers, out of vanity so that people could see who was linking to
the blog entry.  Some still do.  Have a look at "referer spam" in
Google.

Rich.

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