On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:20:22PM -0800, Bob Scofield scofield-at-omsoft.com |lugod| wrote: > I've got a business website; www.legalargument.net. > > This site is for my legal research and writing law practice. It contains > some > useful legal information, mostly dealing with different types of subpoenas. > > I check my web stats, given to me by my webhosting service, almost every day. > > There is a chart labeled, "Top 30 of 53 Total Referrers." Here is the entry > for the seventh top referrer, indicating 5 "hits." > > 7 5 0.35% http://xxxxxxxx.xxx > > xxxxxxxxx.xxx is a porn site. How can I be referred by a porn site? I can > see > someone visiting a porn site, and then going to my URL. But would that count > as a referral?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referrer_spam Someone visiting a porn site, and then your site does not count as a referral. The referral headers in HTTP, are totally unauthenticated; A client can just lie. See the --referer option for wget, for example. -Ryan _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
