Hits Manipulator Problem

[whodaman]

I currently run Webanalizer and my website has been getting a lot of hits / referrals from a lot of X-rated sites. This seems is a big problems in trying to get an accurate user reading. I really don't know much about this and would like to find out how I can get around this problem.

Thank you

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

What are you actually trying to do? Are you trying to stop the referrals from these sites or stop the logging of them?

Also, do not always trust the referrals that your stats tell you the visitor arrived from, this is a very common method of spam now where a robot is sent out to loads of websites and the referrer is shown as the spammers page. You see the url in your logs and click it to see what site is linking to you, bingo, the spammer got you to visit their page.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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