[Gllug] Strange spam happenings

[John G Walker]

On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:31:53 +0000 Adrian McMenamin
<adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info> wrote:

> I host a political website (http://hatemytory.com - if you don't like
> the politics don't say you weren't warned!) which gets a <cough>
> moderate amount of traffic, but in the last few days the public stats
> counter has shown a fair number of references to the site from spam
> sites (eg the sorts of places that sell you pharmaceuticals).
> 
> When I look at these sites I see no reference to my site on them and
> nothing in the html to suggest a hidden link. Nor can I seem to find
> these visits in the real server logs. Very strange.
> 
> What is going on? is this just a form of link spam as, in theory, the
> reference links are public and possibly indexable?
> 
> Or is it the prelude to some sort of DDoS attack on the site?
> 
> Any clues?

Spammers refer to legitimate sites in order to get ranking, and
therefore appear higher in web searches. They also get a certain
amount of traffic from people who follow the links. It is, in a way, yet
another form of spamming. 

You should hide the list of referring sites,

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 All the best,
 John
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