Porn sites as referrers in my stats

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by Ron, Feb 16, 2006.

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    I find more and more porn sites as referrers in my stats. It always looks like this:
    www.somepornsite.com/00000022.html
    If I visit the page I'm redirected to their homepage.
    Are they doing this in hope I put my stats online and they get a back link? Or do they hope they'll get me (any webmaster) as a customer? Do they have other reasons?
     
    Ron, Feb 16, 2006 IP
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    Will.Spencer NetBuilder

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    fsmedia Prominent Member

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    Pornsites referrer spam for a couple reasons. One, your site may post the top 'referrers' publically, two to waste your bandwidth, three, to post comments to a possible blog. they're evil and you may look into an application called Bad Behavior, it's a bot-blocking tool which has proven to be most effective against all bots.
     
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