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Referrer or Log Spam Is a Dirty Trick With No Clear Solutions

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10/23/11 13:04

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Referrer or Log Spam Is a Dirty Trick With No Clear Solutions

Hi everyone! One time on our blog here, we were chatting about how, in your web stats, you'll see all these links coming in from sites that obviously aren't relevant to you. Well Bob Tyndall tracked down what the issue is – and he wanted me to share it with you!

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10/24/11 04:59

Joe

Dallas, Texas

"Referrer Spam; a non-existent problem"

I think you are mixing up two completely different issues that have two completely different solutions. Both arise, of course, from someone using bogus referrals in an attempt to prompt a website:

1) Hoping that web server log files will be published on the web and result in a link to the site.

The issue here is of course, not, referral spam, but rather have pubic log files or statistics! Now, why on earth would anyone give away that information about their website!?!?!?!?

Protect your log files / statistical reports and referral spam won't be getting any links from you!

2) Second, in hopes that you, when reviewing your referral log files, go to the website, ie: direct traffic generation.

In the past, I found this to be annoying, as when looking at the referrers for my sites, I ended up seeing a lot of "bogus websites".

So, I just tweaked my stats package a little bit and now I get a 3-part report every day. I can either look at the total stats or just new referrals. The later being what I am most interested in.

However, it is not just a report of new referrals. Before they are shown on my report, the stats program checks out the page and determines if the link is: 0) Non-existent, ie: don't put on the report at all, 1) a dofollow link, 2) a nofollow link, or 3) a facebook link.

1 and 2 being the most important reports as I can see all the new links and their nature.

The facebook report is important, because as you know, facebook doesn't really provide any decent referral information. Everything comes from l.php links to your site, or like.php when their bot grabs your page when someone like's it. So the facebook report is more generic showing which of my pages are linked to or liked.

The bottom line is that referral spam isn't a problem because any intelligent processing of stats files completely and automatically ignores it!

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