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#1 2010-09-10 18:05:22

generalhow

New Member

Registered: 2010-09-10

Posts: 1

how do I limit bad referrers?

My logs say I’ve got people referring my site and these sites are horrible spam sites.

1. How do I deal with this?
2. Should I care (because I do) but would like to know if it’s ‘unimportant’?
3. Does this solution work? http://textpattern.com/weblog/179/ask-a-dev-what-about-referrer-spam

Please advise.

Below is a list of sites referring to my site. I believer ‘referrers’ are sites linking to mine and this degrades my site in SEO where I’ve attempted to make the site worthy of indexing..

http://​priligy.​webs.​com/​apps/​blog/​show/​4729331-​hidrocloruro-​de-​dapoxetine
94.​181.​212.​116

http://​rxapproved.​over-​blog.​com/​article-​pain-​relief-​drugs-​56602777.​html
dynamicip-​94-​181-​228-​41.​pppoe.​kirov.​ertelecom.​ru

http://​www.​cha-​chas-​mexican-​restaurant.​alexunsworth.​info
elk245.​neoplus.​adsl.​tpnet.​pl

http://​rxapproved.​over-​blog.​com/​article-​prednisone-​prednisolone-​56535510.​html
94.​181.​213.​123

http://​www.​businesscoachcourse.​com
91.​210.​106.​254

#2 2010-09-10 18:26:18

RalphFFM

Member

Registered: 2008-10-05

Posts: 40

Re: how do I limit bad referrers?

I don’t know if my idea is effectively: write into ur .htaccess file: (untested)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} priligy [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} rxapproved [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} alexunsworth [OR]
…
RewriteRule .* – [forbidden,last]

#3 2010-09-11 05:56:20

ruud

Developer Emeritus

From: a galaxy far far away

Registered: 2006-06-04

Posts: 5,068

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Re: how do I limit bad referrers?

generalhow wrote:

I believer ‘referrers’ are sites linking to mine and this degrades my site in SEO where I’ve attempted to make the site worthy of indexing..

A more likely explanation is that the spammers hope that your referrer logs are public and thus show a link back to their spammy website. Assuming you keep your statistics private, they don’t benefit from showing up in your referrer logs. You´ll find that those websites don´t actually link to your website, so Google or other indexers don’t see them linking to your website either. They simply issued some HTTP GET requests with an artificial (spammy) referer to your webserver.

Note, some of the websites mentioned are not suitable for people (like me) who are at work ;)