Have you been referrer spammnig my logs for a few monthes ? Well you are doing it all wrong.
- I have never seen a browser that didn’t convert the domain section of the request to lowercase. So if you hit me with a domain that have uppercase letters in it… its filtered.
- You have to include the protocol portion of the URI dumbass. So if I see a referrer that say “www.mycoolsite.com” I know its bogus and its filtered.
- For the directories that are faking traffic to me after I submitted to them. Please stop insulting my intelligence. I know my site isn’t on your front page. At least have your programmer change it so that the referrer portion reflects where my site is listed in your directory.
- For those trying to fake a link to my site… You need to include a key or somthing that ids where I came from. So you can fake a link on the page if I visit it. Since I use a home grown command line stats script I don’t send a referrer to tell you what to fake.
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I like it when the referring links in my log file lands on a page with a PHP redirect to an affiliate merchant like Ebay or Amazon. It saves me the time of collecting my own cookies. ;)