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Currently 143 sites are protected using Referral Spam.
Stop Referral Spam
Invision-Graphics.com offers yet another way of keeping referal spam out of you're data logs. With the help of users and visitors who submit abusive spammers and referal spam, we can help keep these sites from accessing or even showing up in your referal list.
Some may ask will this affect my sites performance?
Definitely not, the file is stored on our secure servers, and will be updated by Invision-Graphics staff manually when required. Referal Spam montiters all activity using the popular "Apache" and "Webalizer," and updates manually when a potentioal referal spam client directs their traffic to our domains.
As Invision-Graphics updates the Referal Spam - you too are protected with the same security. This is why we made Referral Spam a commnuity effort, each registered user can activley partake and help keep Referral Spam up to date by, submitting abusive referral spam url's, spam referral ip's or contribute to the bad word filter.
How do I add this protection to my site?
All that's requried is adding a snipit of code to each of the pages that you want to protect. Theres nothing simplar then that!
We offer 4 ways of blocking referral spam from your site and logs, by blocking the following.
• Block Potential Spammers
• Block Referral Spam
• Block Referal Spammers IP's (great for blocking spammers directly)
• Block Bad Word's
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What is Referral Spam or Log Spamming?
Website owners that monitor their traffic and statistics have seen this type of "spamming," method before, when your site statistics go crazy and you total increased traffic has jumped 60 to 80% over night. You're the victim of referral spam. It's not all that new to the internet and In fact, referral spam was used by big corporations and seo's to help improve a company's pr back in 1997.
So why is referral spam bad now?
The problem is the xxx adult industry and those get rich quick schemes, plus the countless others have now harnessed this technique to do their spamming silently and most times unnoticed. It's the new method of spamming but less time consuming for the spammer.
Why do people do this?
They do it as its free advertisement for them, by referring their traffic to your domain in an attempt for you to review your referral logs and in the hopes that you just might be interested in their services or products that they offer.
You will often see referral spam for products or sites that are somehow similar or related to your own.
One of the most popular ones is "Amazons referral spam," - web owners or visitors that have access to view any particular sites referral logs are more likely to click them thinking "the site is affiliated or linked on http://www.amazon.com".
The reason affiliated patrons use referral spam for such companies as "Amazon," is if you make any purchase after clicking the referral spam link within 24 hours, its your spammer who earns the revenue.
Referral Spam is also done to achieve a back link from its victim, many sites that have a link to their statistics or display their statistics openly to the public usually fall victim to this type of abuse. Popular tools such as Webalizer, and many others tools that display referral logs get hit the most.
By obtaining an illegal back link their increasing their page rank. Referral Spam is used in most cases to drive sites page rank up by referring their traffic to your domain there doing one of two things by using this method.
Using your domains popularity and page rank to boost their own, hoping others will click the referral link in your access logs, and be enticed to take advantage of their products or services increasing their revenue at the benefit of your hard work and expense.
How does Referral Spam Affect Me?
If you own your domain for example http://your-site.com, it affects you greatly. Many web owners pay for bandwidth and have certain limitations set by their hosting company, like a monthly cap of 20GB of bandwidth allowance per month. But now you're a victim of referral spam, your 20GB allowance is either getting used up quiet quickly or you have gone over and it's now costing you an additional $1 - $5.00 per GB.
This can drive a web owners cost way up in a short period of time, plus making your site unreachable or down half the time causing slow page loads and you risk loosing visitors and potential customers.
Victim of referral spam our encouraged to report it to their hosting company to see if they can block the spammer from point of access, and web owners our encouraged to either password protect the referral statistics or remove the link from public directories.
Check the links above on other methods of stopping referral spam.
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