The latest round of spam showing up as blogger hits come from fr.netlog . com and appears to be actually a link from t . co instead. So far I have gotten sixteen “referrals” from there this week. While they show up on the Blogger dashboard’s stats, Google Analytics does not list the hits. Why Google does not filter them out for Blogger’s built in stats puzzles me.
So anyone getting hits from there, please do not clink on the links to investigate, that is what they want you to do. I would not be surprised if this is being done by the same people responsible for the aptratings spam.
UPDATED October 1, 2012
Yet another round of referral spam from Russia has been hitting my blog heavily. In this case adsresultpages . com links to a viagra ad. Out of curiosity, I looked up the website through whois and found out it gets about the same amount of visits I do a day. Not exactly a successful campaign, is it?
Funny thing is that referral spam has been around since at least 2002 when blogs started getting going in earnest and nobody can figure out how it can be profitable.
Im getting a ton of hits from them as well. Very irritating.
ReplyDeleteFacing the same issue from Russian websites, though the traffic is low but the links land me to a porn/spam page. Is it going to affect anything on my blog or they are just spam links for advertisement?
ReplyDeleteThey won't affect your blog status in Google or other search engines since the referrals were just there to get you to click on their website.
ReplyDeleteI do recommend clearing out your browser cookies and scanning for malware after visiting sites like that.