I have created a page hidden away on one of my sites (blocked from search engines by robots.txt and meta noindex tag) and there are no links to the page. The page is my home page for firefox. The page consists of a 100 or so links to websites I visit frequently (ie my bank, the local paper, my usual airline, Digitalpoint (of course), other forums, Google analytics, yahoo site explorer, admin pages of my forums, etc, etc). It makes life easier to get through the daily routine. A concern I have, is that this page will show up in the logs of the sites I visit as a 'referring site'. I would prefer that it did not show up. Is there a way I can stop showing up?
Close off the web page to all incoming traffic (by password protecting it, or having the page on your computer hard drive rather than the web). That won't stop other sites from classifing your page as a referring site, but it will stop those from following that link and viewing your page. I don't think there is a way to stop it from showing as a referring site because that is what it is - a link on one page pointing to another site is a referring link, from a referring page. The best you can do is protect the page from others seeing it.
Thanks. I had another thought. What if I used a URL shortening service for the links on the page. What will show up as the referring site? Will it be my page or would it be the URL shortening site????
You can use a double meta refresh to accomplish this. Here's a link to a free double meta refresh script that I just found on Google for you: ppc-coach.info/double-meta-refresh-tutorial-hide-your-traffic-sources