November 17, 2003
Referrer spam, again
Although I think the whole concept of 'referrer spam' is stupid and a waste of time, here's a quick fix for those of you running Analog:
REFEXCLUDE http://*jennifersblog.com/* REFEXCLUDE http://*malixya.com/* REFEXCLUDE http://*bongohome.com/* REFEXCLUDE http://*a-b-l-o-g.com/* REFEXCLUDE http://*kwalablog.com/* REFEXCLUDE http://*wr18.com/* REFEXCLUDE http://*mikesblog.com/* REFEXCLUDE http://*saulem.com/* REFEXCLUDE http://*akksess.com/* REFEXCLUDE http://*worldnewslog.com/* REFEXCLUDE http://*teoras.com/*Posted by Eric at November 17, 2003 08:30 PM
eric thought i was crazy and was fashioning a tinfoil hat for me until he ran across a link to this on metafilter. these were particularly strange because the link to the porn was buried in a clear gif. what did show was just a super generic blog.
Posted by: laura at November 18, 2003 05:13 AMEric, there's one decent discussion here: http://www.idly.org/2003/11/14/porn_sites_hiding_behind_blogs.php
I threw my two cents in at comment #51. It seems to me this is more of an attempt to grab Google hits from MT sites than from open referrer logs.
...and they may be scraping the Weblogs XML feed or Blogrolling's: they showed up at my place and I don't run comments or link much on either of my sites (and my logs are run in Analog on the local Linux box and are not available on line).
Posted by: dan at November 18, 2003 04:05 PMThey straight turned up in the refer logs of my site too, and I'm not using any kind of recognisable CMS. I reckon they're targetting pretty much any site.
Posted by: Dave at November 30, 2003 11:48 AM