[thelist] Mysterious websites and referers

Maximillian Schwanekamp lists at neptunewebworks.com
Thu Apr 28 15:44:53 CDT 2005


Roel Mulder wrote:
> - Does anyone else find referers like these?
> - Why would anybody take the trouble operating those websites?
> - How come requests originate from those websites without hyperlinks
> to the requested website?

Referer spam.  Stupid attempt to get website owners looking at their 
traffic logs to go "hrm, what's that? <click>."  Also it gives links to 
their spammy domain from sites that make their logs public.

http://www.google.com/search?q=referer+spam

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Maximillian Von Schwanekamp
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