Thanks both to Michael and Stephen for responding. Michael: I did use the "find" to check the html source code of their sites, but didn't find any matches on any one of those sites.
I believe what Stephen said is true. They are faking the referrer. I know how to block them using REF...EEXCLUDE. But I have to manually enter those urls, but those urls are changing all the time, so there seems to be lots of work to track down all those. If there is no other ways, I guess I have to do that. However, I do not HOW they can do a fake refer, do any of you know? Anyway to stop them from faking? Stephen Turner wrote: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Hao wrote: > > > Recently when I went through our analog stats, I found out a bunch of > > adult site were listed pretty high on the referrer session of the stats. > > And I tried to find the links to our site on some of their sites, but > > there are no links to our site on any of those pages! > > > > Does anybody know what caused those sites listed so high on our referrer > > list, and any way to eliminate them? Please help!!! > > > > There's nothing to stop anyone pretending that the referrer was anything > they like. And some adult sites fake the referrer simply in order to get > their names noticed. They especially like to do this for popular blogs which > publish their lists of referrers, because that will help get them a high > google Page Rank. > > You can eliminate them from the Referrer Report using the REFREPEXCLUDE > command, and from the Referring Site Report using REFSITEEXCLUDE. > > -- > Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ > "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than > the question of whether a submarine can swim." (Edsger W. Dijkstra) > > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this > | mailing list, go to > | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html > | > | List archives are available at > | http://www.mail-archive.com/analog-help@lists.isite.net/ > | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ > | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/analog-help@lists.isite.net/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
