Thought I’d call on the wisdom of crowds to help solve a blog mystery. While I love to see my site stats go up, when a lot of the new traffic isn’t from all you kind and generous readers but from some shady urls and ads, it makes me a tad nervous. Why are they sending traffic my way? How did I get on their radar? How can I stop it?
I couldn’t find anything on WordPress so I’m hoping some of you WPies can help me lose the fog of spam.
It’s Friday!
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[…] fact that it is about finance was also very strange). So I searched through WP.com and first found this blog post. When I knew it was called ‘Referrer Spam’ I found this topic on the WP.com […]
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This is an increasingly popular (and irritating) phenomenon known as “referrer spam”. Basically, the spammer hopes your access logs are public so they can get a free link. They also count on webmasters visiting the site for an additional source of traffic.
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WP seems to be good at catching spam posts from with their filters.
A lot of these spam things are automated. For what it’s worth, I’m with you– I can’t stand it. You can’t really do anything about it, other than let the spam filter do their work though…
Do you mean that you’re getting lots of spam comments?
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I’m not getting spam comments but my site traffic shows lots of hits coming from referrer sites which–when you click on them to see who they are– are clearly spam sites.
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