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

[will]

Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> 209.203.20.230 - - [21/Jan/2005:10:40:15 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 471 
> "http://www.healhome.com/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT)"
> 80.58.11.107 - - [21/Jan/2005:10:40:57 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 471 
> "http://www.makehelp.com/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98; Messages.co.uk)"
>  66.160.17.189 - - [21/Jan/2005:10:41:26 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 471 
>  "http://www.myremed.com/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 
>  2000) Opera 5.12 [en]"
> 
> Seeing lots of these in my logs.  The "referrer" fields are spam sites, 
> and don't seem to have any link to my site.  So what are they trying to 
> achieve?

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.

Will.
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