>From now on, please reply directly to Jaime rather than to the list, as this
is OT
Thanks
Russ



> Jaime Wong wrote:
>> 
>> Today I went to check my site statistic for fun and have a look at the
>> Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines)".
>> 
>> I saw a couple of suspicious links being displayed there....such as
>> companies who has nothing to do with web designing and adult sites.
>> 
>> There is only one adult site being displayed in Feb and for the month of
>> March..the number of unwelcomed links shoot up to at least 10.
>> 
>> Why is that so? Am I being used for something I do not know of? Not
>> knowledgeable in this site statistic area. Should I just ignore?
> 
> Referer spam... If you don't publish the refererring urls anywhere they
> yes, you can ignore it.
> 
> Many sites (well, many weblogs) list the referers, sites that link to
> them, if you do this, you need to be aware of referer spam and put some
> measure into place to prevent displaying it.
> 
> 
> Pete

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