Shady Dealing
Recently I've started noticing some really odd referrers in my web logs. It appeared to be people visiting my site after being referred from all kinds of gambling sites, but when I visited the sites in question I couldn't find any links to mine.
I guessed it was some kind of spam, fraudelently reporting the referring site of a visitor in order to generate traffic to the referrer, but I couldn't work out the reasoning behind it. The only person who was seeing the referring site was me!
Then in struck me, a lot of blogs now have an auto-generated link to their most frequent referrers. The gambling sites have obviously got wise to this and are generating spam visits to those sites in order to get on those lists. Like most spam, it's probably completely indiscriminate and they're hitting my blog even though it will never generate a return visit.
It's annoying though, it means that i'm having to wade though spam on my web logs too now!
I guessed it was some kind of spam, fraudelently reporting the referring site of a visitor in order to generate traffic to the referrer, but I couldn't work out the reasoning behind it. The only person who was seeing the referring site was me!
Then in struck me, a lot of blogs now have an auto-generated link to their most frequent referrers. The gambling sites have obviously got wise to this and are generating spam visits to those sites in order to get on those lists. Like most spam, it's probably completely indiscriminate and they're hitting my blog even though it will never generate a return visit.
It's annoying though, it means that i'm having to wade though spam on my web logs too now!
Spammers are getting more and more sophisticated and a lot of it is generated automatically. So keep an eye out, coz when it start it won't stop.
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