Over the last few months I've been getting more and more "referrer spam" on my site. It continues to worsen so I'm at a point where I must do something about it. To give you an idea for how bad it is... for the last 7 days of referrers by page report, only referrer #24 is relavent to my site.
How is everyone else dealing with this?
Referrer Spam
I was getting this and noticed they were all from the same IP addresses so I just denied some IP address ranges from being able to access my web server. Seems to have worked well, no referrer porn spam anymore. You could also do the same thing by adding IP addresses (or blocks) to the IP Exclude configuration option in MetaTraffic but this wouldn't prevent them from accessing the web server at all which is the preferable method.
~Chad
Referrer Spam
It really depends on how you want to address this issue:
1) If you don't want to see them in your Metatraffic Reports, do it the way Chad suggested.
2) If you don't want them to access your webpages, you will need to add some coding that will disallow those people from viewing your webpages, given the appropriate criteria. eg:
[code]<%
if UserIP = BadIPRange then
response.write "You are not welcome here."
response.end
else
%>
[YOUR WEBPAGE CODE GOES HERE]
<% end if %>[/code]
[OR]
[code]<%
if Referrer = BadReferrer then
response.write "You are not welcome here."
response.end
else
%>
[YOUR WEBPAGE CODE GOES HERE]
<% end if %>[/code]
(NOTE: This is NOT all the code. This only serves as an example, to show you the sort of code required to do this.)
Good Luck...
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