Recently, we're seeing signs of Blogger blog owners who are tired of seeing references to referer spam, in their Stats displays.
There are 3 ways that you may be able to see an end to this abuse of our patience, and our Stats displays.
1. Referer spam, seemingly lame to us, is probably an excellent source of revenue for the spammers. Look at how easy it must be, to produce. All that is required is access to other peoples computers, to send the spam - and websites, with owners willing to pay for undeserved traffic. Minimum exposure - but constant income. What spammer, able to do this, will willingly stop?
2. Google is blocking referer spam - but it's a cat and mouse game. If you look at the referer spam which shows up in your Stats displays, you'll see that there is more than one spammer - and more than one spamming technique. Even as Google detects and blocks one specific technique, you can bet that another technique is being developed. As long as referer spam continues to produce income, spammers will continue to produce the spam.
3. Referer spam will continue to produce income, as long as blog owners continue to click on the links. And now, we are discussing the only way that referer spam will ever be stopped.
That is the only way to make referer spam stop. Learn to use a proxy server, if you must check out your inlinks from Stats. Alternately, check out inlinks using a third party visitor information accessory, like SiteMeter or StatCounter, which is immune to referer spam.
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Why doesn't Blogger put an end to referer spam?Some are angrier, and tragically so.
Why can't Google put an end to referer spam? I'm moving my blog to WordPress!There are several options, to ending referer spam - but not any option will be 100%, immediately, effective.
There are 3 ways that you may be able to see an end to this abuse of our patience, and our Stats displays.
- The spammers have to cease spamming.
- Google has to block the spam.
- You have to stop clicking on the links.
1. Referer spam, seemingly lame to us, is probably an excellent source of revenue for the spammers. Look at how easy it must be, to produce. All that is required is access to other peoples computers, to send the spam - and websites, with owners willing to pay for undeserved traffic. Minimum exposure - but constant income. What spammer, able to do this, will willingly stop?
2. Google is blocking referer spam - but it's a cat and mouse game. If you look at the referer spam which shows up in your Stats displays, you'll see that there is more than one spammer - and more than one spamming technique. Even as Google detects and blocks one specific technique, you can bet that another technique is being developed. As long as referer spam continues to produce income, spammers will continue to produce the spam.
3. Referer spam will continue to produce income, as long as blog owners continue to click on the links. And now, we are discussing the only way that referer spam will ever be stopped.
Don't click on the links.
That is the only way to make referer spam stop. Learn to use a proxy server, if you must check out your inlinks from Stats. Alternately, check out inlinks using a third party visitor information accessory, like SiteMeter or StatCounter, which is immune to referer spam.
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Simple - the spammers know how to setup security, on their computers!
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2011/07/unfilter-web-selectively.html
It's up to Google and blogger to stop them, or like one of the other users, I'm moving to wordpress. Google isn't doing much to stop the worst one, which I won't name but it ends in .ru.
Most unsatisfactory.
The "Stop Clicking On The Links" campaign starts with you, and a few others - but the spammers will never go back to their day jobs until everybody stops clicking.
In reality, nothing will make spammers go away - we all know this. But if you don't click on the links, the spamvertised websites will get slightly less intraffic - and this may hasten the day when some of the spammers go back to their day jobs, asking "Can I soooper-size your order?".
And people who do click on the links endanger themselves and their computers - and possibly contribute to the bot population - and thus to the easier distribution of the spam.
So, Don't click on the links!!
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I can think of some real problems to worry about - but if you wish to worry about non existent traffic, to your blog, so be it.
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2011/11/referer-spam-does-not-represent-real.html
The problem is that I am continously getting fake referral traffic from the SPAM sites on daily basis, and my real traffic has dropped despite the fact that I continue to contribute valuable content to my blog. I am upset that I can't find a solution to this issue.
There is not much even in your guidelines that I can adopt and minimize my problem, as I already implementing your suggestions. So I can only ask how long should it take at maximum to stop this fake referral traffic?