Why are all these pharmacy sites linking to me?

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by mubin, Apr 22, 2007.

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    mubin, Apr 22, 2007 IP
  2. dave owen

    dave owen Well-Known Member

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    Sounds like referral spammers. They fake referrals to your site in order to show up in your stats.

    If you're wondering how that would help - consider this thread as an example. You've effectively created some links for them by linking to your stats. Lots of sites have their stats pages open to the public and search engines, hence the benefit.
     
    dave owen, Apr 22, 2007 IP
  3. mubin

    mubin Notable Member

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    My God thats evil!
     
    mubin, Apr 22, 2007 IP
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    Yeah, we hatesss them...
     
    Mandrel, Apr 23, 2007 IP
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    spam is everywhere...:mad:
     
    emaz85, Apr 24, 2007 IP
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    ahh yes I always get random links from unrelated stuff..
     
    drylbc, Apr 24, 2007 IP
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    How to prevent this?
     
    ambsmart, Apr 26, 2007 IP
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    login Notable Member

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    Its not really hurting anybody right ?
     
    login, Apr 26, 2007 IP
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    The pharmacy guys just love you ;)
    They love loads of other people too, and they wish to make the internet world full of love :p
     
    gr8liverpoolfan, Apr 26, 2007 IP
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    the pharmacy guys love me too , they spam my wordpress, directories , im a marked man :(
     
    procrastinator, Apr 26, 2007 IP
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    dave owen Well-Known Member

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    I don't think you can prevent it happening, except perhaps by banning individual sites or IP addresses (not that practical). The main thing is to make sure they don't get any benefit - keep your stats hidden from search engines.
     
    dave owen, Apr 26, 2007 IP
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    It's actually kinda helping me with the technorati rankings :)
     
    mubin, Apr 26, 2007 IP