Bullshit Referrers
 

Can anyone explained to me what these bullshit referrers are?

toprevenue.net
1dollar-per-unique-visitor.wkcash.com
350usd-per-1k-install.wkcash.com
codec-dollarz.wkcash.com
earn-30usd-per-softsale.wkcash.com

I know that none of them have links to my site and they are messing up my stats. Thanks.

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Something to do with this fuckwit i think...
http://greenguysboard.com/board/showthread.php?t=44519

The idea spam via your stats i think.

yup, and it seems alot of LL's are getting hit with these fake referers ... I for one am getting tons of those same referers and they are mostly from EST domains.. no wonder they get banned from LL's.

What I dont understand is what benefit does the owner of these domains get by sending fake hits? am I missing something?

It's not just linklist. I'm getting hit with these referers across my 3 hubs.It's really becoming annoying.

Hey Art, this thread will shed some light on it.

Emerald, I took this bit of text from the page that I linked to in the thread above.

Why do people do this? There are two main reasons.

The first is to get you to follow an affiliate link, in the hopes that you just might like what you see on the page you view, and be enticed to follow it. You will often see referral spam for products / sites that are somehow related to your own.

Another reason for log spamming is for the backlink or pagerank factor. If your stats are available on a publicly viewable page (ie. if you go to www.yourdomain.com/stats/ to view your stats without having to enter a username and password) you are a much greater target. Some stats pages have a pagerank value to them, and a backlink to the site can help with the search engine rankings.

Hope this sheds some light on referral spam.

Edited to add: This tactic most likely doesn't work very well now, but a few years back it was probably more effective. IMHO these guys are wasting their time with the fake hits.

Thanks LowryBigwood for the explanation .. it does help to understand it better.. now I just need a way to stop it so my stats reflect properly.

I'm guessing .htaccess is the only way?

I've been seeing a ton of this in my stats too...is it a good idea to block them or is it harmless other than skewing stats?

As far as I know yes.

Ponygirl - Other than messing up your stats I don't believe you have much to worry about.

Thanks Lowry!