Welcome to the world of 'referer spam'

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gemlog

May 22, 2006
4:49 PM EDT
Webalizer is a great tool and I create a new cron entry as a matter of course whenever I set up an new vhost entry etc.

However, you will want to read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer_spam

They will really junk up your logs. I still use it, but I no longer have them linked anywhere spiderable and specifically had google remove the old ones. Put them in robots.txt straight away.

Took me ages to twig on to what was happening back in the day.

Here's a site devoted to collecting a blacklist (sorry, forgot that in the 1st edit): http://referrercop.org/about.php

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