Ban Referral Log Spam

I get huge amounts of referral log spam. None of my referral logs are visible to search engines so it does the spammers no good.

My guess is sending referral spam is practically free so they don’t bother to check if spamming a particular site’s logs gains them visibility.

The big exception is the sites that manage to get the false referrals into Alexa results. Regardless of what you think of the value of Alexa’s metrics some sites that are indexed by the search engines publish them.

I’d hardly care about the log spam except that my stats have become useless.

So I was glad to discover aStatSpam:

aStatSpamm is a PhP script that will help you to get rid of referer spammers. The script is connected with our blacklist database, and it will put some lines in your .htaccess files, in order to redirect the spammers to other sites.

This way they will not produce fake visitors to your site, plus you will not have bandwidth usage raise.

Get Rid of Referer Spammers

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