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> My company has an affiliate program set up with other
> webmasters. The webmasters put a banner on their site that
> links to ours with a unique referral ID. The problem we are
> having is that several search engines are spidering these
> other sites and then following the links from them to our
> site. This way, it looks like the web site is sending
> traffic to our site. This is a problem. What we would like
> to do is catch this type of activity and keep it from being
> recorded in the database for that web site. We've thought up
> some clunky solutions, but I thought I would ask in case
> someone knows of an elegant way to handle this.
For a simple solution, just make sure that the http_user_agent contains
"Mozilla"
The "larger" search engine robots don't have that
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