Webmaster forum - Stupid poker sites

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Stupid poker sites

el_roachmeister@yahoo.com

2005-05-25, 4:37 am

For the past few weeks my web stats are showing a flood of hits from
all sorts of unrelated poker sites? My guess is they are creating
artificial hits to my site so webmasters will click on them to see what
they are. Anyone else experiencing this? What can be done about it so
they stop messing up my web stats?

Thanks!

Charles Sweeney

2005-05-25, 8:14 am

wrote

> What can be done about it so
> they stop messing up my web stats?

Take your site offline.

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lostinspace

2005-05-25, 8:14 am

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Subject: Stupid poker sites

> For the past few weeks my web stats are showing a flood of hits from
> all sorts of unrelated poker sites? My guess is they are creating
> artificial hits to my site so webmasters will click on them to see what
> they are. Anyone else experiencing this? What can be done about it so
> they stop messing up my web stats?
>
> Thanks!
>

Webstat software's do not count 403's.

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer keyword keep_out
OR
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.website.com/* [OR]
OR
I don't recall the RewriteCond line for user-agent, it's not something I
use. It may apply either the "begins with" or "ends with" or "contains".

David Dorward

2005-05-25, 7:59 pm

el_roachmeister@yahoo.com wrote:

> For the past few weeks my web stats are showing a flood of hits from
> all sorts of unrelated poker sites? My guess is they are creating
> artificial hits to my site so webmasters will click on them to see what
> they are.

Some sites publish links to recent referers, or have public stats pages that
have links to referers in them. Its evil GoogleRank abuse.

> Anyone else experiencing this?

Many people

> What can be done about it so they stop messing up my web stats?

Create a black list and write an Apache module to filter them out, or
(simpler) grep -v them out of the logs.

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William Tasso

2005-05-26, 11:21 pm

Forging a path through the Usenet jungle, armed only with a rusty
KNode/0.9.0, David Dorward stumbled into alt.www.webmaster and said:

> el_roachmeister@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>
> Some sites publish links to recent referers, or have public stats pages
> that
> have links to referers in them. Its evil GoogleRank abuse.
>
>
> Many people
>
>
> Create a black list and write an Apache module to filter them out, or
> (simpler) grep -v them out of the logs.

better still - stop publishing your access stats. referer spammers are
drawn to stats pages like flies to sh1te

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