Is referal spamming legal?

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    I couldnt really find anything on this,so is referal spamming legal or illegal?

    thanks
     
    seobeginner, Dec 29, 2008 IP
  2. scott1995

    scott1995 Active Member

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    Spam is illegal in the U.S. So i would say no
     
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    adacprogramming Well-Known Member

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    What are you referring to as "referral spamming"?
     
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  4. seobeginner

    seobeginner Well-Known Member

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    where you use a prorgramme,to make it appear in another persons sweb statistics that a link from your site has given them x number of hits


    this gets you backlinks, and depending on how many hits they get from you,traffic if they visit your site
     
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    adacprogramming Well-Known Member

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    Ah,
    No this is not illegal. There are laws against email spam, but that is about it.

    Now, whether Google take exception to this practice or not is another story. In all likelihood, they would only consider the stats page to be a link farm and ignore it. That wouldn't hurt you, but it would also do you no good.
     
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  6. seobeginner

    seobeginner Well-Known Member

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    ahh thanks - yes,google doesnt like it - but it does work,with the correct software - which i have

    I was just a little concerned if it could get me in any real trouble,but guess not

    thanks :)
     
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    oh my bad, I thought you meant just emailing tons of people your ref etc etc. That's legal, just google will hate you :p
     
    scott1995, Jan 2, 2009 IP
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    wbmartin3 Peon

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    What software does one use to do this? I'd be interested in doing it, too.

    -Bill
     
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    Feydakin Active Member

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    RefferER spam was an old tactic used to get easy links to your website.. It became a non issue when most of us moved our stats behind passwords and stopped letting Google index the stats pages.. Apparently enough people still have their stats in the open that these guys still think it's worth the effort..
     
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  10. seobeginner

    seobeginner Well-Known Member

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    check out my threads, im selling it lol
     
    seobeginner, Jan 6, 2009 IP
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    Mintyfresh Peon

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    Whya re you trying to cheat the system? People like you will never get anywhere online...
     
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  12. seobeginner

    seobeginner Well-Known Member

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    Its not 1983 anymore - its the only way to get soemwhere online, i have many other methods this is just one of many
     
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    I don't have a public stats page and still get referral spam with awstats sometimes :confused:
     
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    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    I go after referral spammers with a vengeance and have succeeded in getting hosting accounts closed etc.
     
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    seobeginner Well-Known Member

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    yeah - i only hit every url twice, so it goes unoticed and a free backlink :)
     
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    Interesting. While referral spam is a mild irritant (unlike email spam), what would there be to go after? All the person would have to do is say that they used to link to your site so you were getting referrals, now they don't.

    How could you prove otherwise and why would a hosting company even care?

    Of the people who have done this to me, I don't even care, at least not enough to waste any time trying to do something about it. So far no one has done it to a degree where is makes any difference my site speed.
     
    adacprogramming, Jan 9, 2009 IP