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#1 2008-04-15 23:37:11
- els
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Is this just referrer spam?
The last month or so I’ve been getting hundreds (sometimes 50 or more a day) of hits for one particular article page, from all over the world, all different IPs (most of them only 2 or 3 visits), no referrers are logged. I started blocking them in .htaccess, but if it goes on like this I’ll have to add at least a dozen every day…
How am I going to get rid of them? It’s really ruining my stats. I thought about changing the article title (or just the url-only title) and putting a redirect gone in .htaccess for the old one, but that will affect other visitors as well. Though if there is no other way I still could do that, it’s not a very important article ;)
It looks like this in the slimstat logs:
uacity.com 15-04-08 Netscape 4.76 Windows Ukraine /artikelen/clickerforum 22:26:00 /artikelen/clickerforum brutele.be 15-04-08 Opera 8.00 Windows Belgium /artikelen/clickerforum 21:29:00 /artikelen/clickerforum 218.56.97.177 15-04-08 Firefox 1.6 Windows China /artikelen/clickerforum 21:22:00 comcast.net 15-04-08 Internet Explorer 6.0 Windows Onbekend /artikelen/clickerforum/ 17:29:00 /artikelen/clickerforum/ sbcglobal.net 15-04-08 Internet Explorer 5.0 Windows Onbekend /artikelen/clickerforum/ 17:29:00 /artikelen/clickerforum/ comcast.net 15-04-08 Firefox 1.5 Windows United States /artikelen/clickerforum/ 17:26:00 /artikelen/clickerforum/ comcast.net 15-04-08 Internet Explorer 3.02 Windows United States /artikelen/clickerforum/ 17:15:00 /artikelen/clickerforum/ rr.com 15-04-08 Internet Explorer 6.0 Windows United States /artikelen/clickerforum/ 17:15:00 /artikelen/clickerforum/ swbell.net 15-04-08 Onbekend Onbekend United States /artikelen/clickerforum/ 17:13:00 /artikelen/clickerforum/ 17:14:00
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Re: Is this just referrer spam?
A google search returns this page on the top but further down there’s is a textpattern powered site. Did you consider making a very small page which uses that address?, The load on the server will probably be less that having to check dozens of referrers in htaccess on every request in your site.
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#3 2008-04-16 10:03:13
- els
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Re: Is this just referrer spam?
colak wrote:
Huh? How did my page’s url end up in all those search results? As far as I can see they are all forum pages… I wonder if the word ‘forum’ in the article title is responsible for this? If someone understands what happened I’d love to hear it.
Did you consider making a very small page which uses that address?, The load on the server will probably be less that having to check dozens of referrers in htaccess on every request in your site.
Having seen the google search results, I think I am just going to put a redirect gone in .htaccess, and change the url-only title of the article.
Unless someone has a better idea?
Thanks Yiannis, for pointing this out.
Last edited by els (2008-04-16 10:03:45)
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