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http://www.inowebmarketing.com/2006/06/referer-spoofing-referer-spam-why-is-this-on-the-incline/ Innovative Web Marketing Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:57:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.inowebmarketing.com/2006/06/referer-spoofing-referer-spam-why-is-this-on-the-incline/comment-page-1/#comment-4843 Infonistacrat Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:14:55 +0000 http://robferrall.com/2006/06/04/referer-spoofing-referer-spam-why-is-this-on-the-incline/#comment-4843 There is a very good reason people engage in this form of activity. It has all to do with search engine rankings, and the fact that most (a lot?) of people's people weblogs are accessable, in some way, by search engine robots. So, if I inject my link into your logs, and do it into the logs of thousands of other sites, it looks to the robots like I have thousands of sites linking back to me, and thus, it gives me a higher score, and I might end up on the front page of search results for my niche. Classic Black Hat stuff. There is a very good reason people engage in this form of activity. It has all to do with search engine rankings, and the fact that most (a lot?) of people’s people weblogs are accessable, in some way, by search engine robots. So, if I inject my link into your logs, and do it into the logs of thousands of other sites, it looks to the robots like I have thousands of sites linking back to me, and thus, it gives me a higher score, and I might end up on the front page of search results for my niche. Classic Black Hat stuff.

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