Comments on: Clever Referer Spam

By: Luke Schierer

Luke Schierer — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Oh, that is a neat idea, I'd like to implement something like that (the list of links), do you have your script up somewhere so that I need not re-invent the wheel?

On a side note, gaim-encryption should no longer require openssl support in gaim, which makes life easier, as fewer people are creating undistributable versions of gaim.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

To be honest, I'd suggest just removing the inbound-links list. But one possible further escalation would be to ensure that pages have a valid RSS feed.

By: Steve Laniel

Steve Laniel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I’d have to agree with the anonymous poster: I think the inbound-links column is pretty useless for visitors to your site. It’s useful for you as an admin, but not for us. “Oh, really? People got here from Myspace.com? Fascinating.” It’s just not gonna happen.

By: bignose

bignose — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I'm also a bit mystified why you would automatically put referer links on the page. Depending on the purpose for putting them there, you might just 'rel="nofollow"' all the links, and state that so the spammers can see it.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I would be inclined to show the referer links as plain text. No hyperlinks == no PageRank, a fact that should be readily apparent to spammers. In my experience, most people don’t actually want to follow the links in a referer list anyway; reading them is just an idle-curiosity sort of thing.

By: CLAUDIA

CLAUDIA — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I just found the post… I have no idea what your referring to. We have no popups and we are not spammers, although several spammers are using varing names@nipple-huggers.com as the “sender” of spam mail. Something I can only report & but not stop…. I will be more than willing to forward any suggestions to my IP.
Respectfully,
Claudia

By: Claudia

Claudia — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Please remove this "Clever Referer Spam". We do not link to you and would have no reason to link to you since your blog is no relation to our product in any way. So what good would it do us?

We also have "NO POP UPS"....

We strive to be what I believe is called white hats(?) at least vs Black Hat SEO.

Please check our site - there is NO SPAM of any kind.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you for the clairfication. ...and yes we do have a lot of porn sites and others taking advantage of the trademark "nipple huggers" and our rankings, but to my knowledge there is nothing I can do about it. I someone can advise us, it would be greatly appreciated. We do not spam anyone, period. We get enough our selves. Plus some of the links that claim t o be Nipple Huggers are in your face porn and download lord knows what to your computer. It may be done in our name, but my IP can (I think) prove it is not us.

Thank you very much for the retraction...

Sincerely,
Claudia