This referer (),
is using malicious methods to try to gain search engine rankings.
What is Referral Spam?
Referral Spam is a type of Search Engine Spam or Spamdexing.
These are methods used by deviant web designers, hackers, and
SEO companies to manipulate the search engines.
Everyone on the web wants to be #1 on Google for specific search
phrase keywords. For example; what if Google had your site listed
first on it's list when someone typed in the keywords "Real
Estate", or "Medicine", or the name of the latest
popstar? Well, you'd probably soon be a millionaire.
What a search engine spammer does is try to exploit the weaknesses
of search engines, as the spammer learns the "ranking recipe"
or "algorithm", he starts to find ways to automate the
process to take advantage of his knowledge.
One such "weakness" is the fact that Google gives "points"
to a site for having links to it, from other sites (This doesn't
actually apply anymore). One way to manipulate this is to
get on site referrer lists. The referrer spammer writes a script
that crawls the Internet, searching for sites that have a referrer
system. A referrer system is a common function seen on many sites,
mostly on many of the common blog sites. It is a list of the sites
that send the most referrals or visitors to them.
It is a great thing to know; which sites your visitors are coming
from.
The referrer spammer creates a script that confuses your server
into thinking that visitors are coming from any site that they
choose, meanwhile there are no real visitors and there is no link
on their site.
Then as the spammer "dings" your site over and over,
his site climbs up to your referrer list. When Google spiders
your site, the spammer gets "points" toward his rankings
because you are linking to him. Sometimes the spammer has harmful
material on their site and Google gives you negative points for
linking to them.
To Remove Referral Spammers
To remove this spammer,
, or any spammer, you will need a little programming knowledge.
You could build a simple referrer approval system.
This will make it so that your site won't actually link to anyone
until you approve them. You could just disable your referrer system
all together. A good precaution is to make sure that you don't
have the text "Top Referrers" or similar text on your
site, this is how the spammers find you in the first place.
If you can monitor your access logs, you can pick out abusive
IP addresses.
If you want to stop these Bot Visitors, you can create a "Banned
IPs" list that you can put on your site. Here is some PHP
code that does just this:
if (in_array($ipadd, $banned)) {
echo "ERROR... YOUR IP IS BANNED...<br>";
exit; } ?>
This can be placed at the top of every page on your site. You
can also add IP address to the list (or remove IP addresses from
the list).
Note to Referrer Spammers
If you are an SEO Company and are using Referal Spam to promote
your clients' businesses, you are doing them, and yourself a huge
disservice. Multiple sites have complained that we were taking
over their search rankings. But we weren't their only problem,
because of their referral spamming, they were soon completely
dropped and blacklisted from Google completely. We have no more
complaints from them, because they are blaming their SEO Companies.
They had to register new domains.
If you are a nerd or miscreant that thinks that they have to cheat
in order to succeed, you are wrong. With that strategy, your site
will fail. You will climb up the ranks, and then soon fall out
of them forever. And it takes a long time to get ranked
with Google.
Remember, you can't really get ranked using trickery, it's
just a matter of time, and then you'll get blacklisted from Google.
Then you'll have to start All Over.
Be honest, create a resource, and you'll get ranked, that's the
only way to do it. Piggybacking on other peoples' sites is weak.
Don't leach off others, lead the way.
Your site is on this list and you're not
a Spammer
If you're on this list, it's because you (or your web designer
or Search Engine Optimization company) have used trickery to get
listed here.
Once you've sent a referral, we spider your site to see if there
is really a link.
If there is none, or if there is a redirect, someone with access
to your server has obviously spammed us.
If you feel you've been put on this list unfairly, simply
send a message,
using the Message Board below (on this page only). Include the
name of your site, and what you have done to resolve the problem,
Once received and approved, we will remove your site from this
list promptly.
This list displays spam that is newer than 6 months :
2010-03-02
If you can stop spamming for six months, we'll remove you from this
list.
Here are the TOP 100 REFERERING SPAMMERS that are on our list.
#
HITS
KEY
REFERER
PAGE
IP
LAST VISITOR
Message Board
Page Posts: 46
NAME
CITY
DATE
Pharmf18
tytwpiyr
2009-11-03
Very nice site!
alexd429
ioeuitri
2009-10-28
Very nice site!
alexe704
opoyppwu
2009-10-28
Very nice site!
Pharmc816
eurruotr
2009-10-27
Very nice site!
alexc433
rttpepyt
2009-10-25
Very nice site!
alexd629
woputwup
2009-10-25
Very nice site!
alexb510
tyiueoii
2009-10-15
Very nice site!
alexg582
eptppiuy
2009-10-15
Very nice site!
alexg324
uiwetoyt
2009-10-07
Very nice site!
alexk708
iuwiwypt
2009-10-06
Very nice site!
Pharmd700
uwiitooe
2009-10-05
Very nice site!
Pharme473
iewpryip
2009-10-05
Very nice site!
Pharmd415
utpptoou
2009-10-01
Very nice site!
Pharmf747
rereyuep
2009-09-28
Very nice site!
alexf330
oiitouio
2009-09-28
Very nice site!
alexk27
tiyweeie
2009-09-28
Very nice site!
Pharmd334
ripweriy
2009-09-28
Very nice site!
alexk446
ypuwroyu
2009-09-17
Very nice site!
alexf51
ieewreei
2009-09-17
Very nice site!
alexe799
tiyopiir
2009-09-09
Very nice site!
alexa826
eyoouypu
2009-09-09
Very nice site!
alexb891
rywpytwt
2009-09-05
Very nice site!
alexf872
ryptuwpt
2009-09-05
Very nice site!
alexg546
wrryeypi
2009-08-28
Very nice site!
alexg215
iwroteru
2009-08-28
Very nice site!
alexa931
uprwoeip
2009-08-25
Very nice site!
alexg292
otrityrw
2009-08-24
Very nice site!
alexg863
rreeiwrr
2009-08-17
Very nice site!
alexf576
rrptewto
2009-08-17
Very nice site!
alexd523
wowuuyty
2009-08-14
Very nice site!
alexe667
rywyeeue
2009-08-14
Very nice site!
daiane
o que e biografia
2009-04-04
eu queria sabe o que é biografia
daiane
o gue e biografia
2009-04-04
eu gueria sabe o gue é biografia
ubkyj
Tokyo
2008-12-06
hello, good site.
kevky
Tokyo
2008-12-06
hello, good site.
girl
2008-08-17
hi, my site www.allgirlsunited.com is absolutely safe. it is on a paid hosting. You should have proves to sustain that and make it public, otherwise you will get sued for that, so pls inform me when you remove my website from this list.
Walter Gildersleeve
Beaverton, OR
2008-05-22
This is regarding linkfrog.net. LinkFrog is a URL redirection site. It is occasionally used by spammers to disguise the actual destination of a link. Such behavior is strictly against LinkFrog TOU, and links are deactivated daily in response to user's concerns. (Such users are only a small percentage of all users, though, less than one percent, in any case.)
If you have encountered offending links, please contact me immediately at abuse@linkfrog.net, providing the offending URL.
We at LinkFrog have never engaged in spamming, or any other questionable activity.
Thanks,
Walter
Chris
dublin
2008-05-19
i just checked my stats page and see fillbest.com have several clicks to me. does anyone have any advice how i can get rid of these spammers
Stephanie Bernna
san diego
2008-04-25
please remove us from this list: megatouchcentral.com
we paid someone to submit our site, and got a bunch of wierd backlinks
Matt Jones
phoenix
2008-04-21
Why is my site badguru.info on this list. I've had a link on my links page (please take a look if you don't beleive me) for a while now. Perhaps you searched during a web update or missed it. Please remove my site because I never spammed and frown upon those who do
malamute
2008-03-23
the domain info for stockleaf.com seems to have changed,the info is now
Christopher Stormer (chris.stormer@gmail.com)
+91.3103167797
Fax: +1.
509 Avenue G
Redondo Beach, P 90277
US
This domain used to be owned by stockleaf.com and the same guy who owns stockleaf also owns a marketing site chrisstormer.com
Utah Pictures
Salt Lake City, Utah
2008-01-18
Dave, it's actually easy to block them, there is a lot of documentation on the internet to do this... What we are doing here is just not LINKING BACK to them. This way our site gets ranked for their name, and then we can deliver this information to honest web designers to protect themselves. The way this site is set up, we are protected from referer spam. We have to OK a site before it links back to them.
Dave
Edinburgh, Scotland
2008-01-18
sviolett.com & tvsetmp3 both show up in my stats too. I'd also be interested in finding a way of blocking them from my site? If I find a way then I'll let you know.
Dave
Edinburgh, Scotland
2008-01-18
sviolett.com & tvsetmp3 both show up in my stats too. I'd also be interested in finding a way of blocking them from my site? If I find a way then I'll let you know.
Utah Pictures
Salt Lake City, Utah
2008-01-16
Vickie, Unfortunately, yes you can loose your search engine rankings if Google finds that you are linking to adult sites or to sites hosting malware, both of those sites are in this category.
Vickie Miranda
Palm Bay, FL
2008-01-16
I have a question, both sviolett.com and tvsetmp3 have a referer link to my site. Which only shows up in my stat area for the site. Can this hurt my site and is there any way to block it from that link?
