Posted by Safalra (Stephen Morley) on 10/28/07 16:03

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:59:33 +0100, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
> I was looking at our statistics (compiled by an external service called
> awstats) and was surprised to notice that a high proportion of pages
> under the heading Liens depuis une page externe (autres sites, hors
> moteurs) (i.e. Links from an external page (other sites, other than
> search engines)) come from a site that has absolutely no connection
> with or relevance to our server. It's a porn site, and as I'm not in
> the business of publicizing porn sites I won't give the URL unless it's
> absolutely necessary to resolve my query. What is puzzling me is that
> there is absolutely nothing in the source code that looks like a link,
> whether to our site or anywhere else other than to another page on the
> same site. [...]


This sounds like standard referrer log spam. See the Wikipedia article for
an overview:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer_spam


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Safalra (Stephen Morley)

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http://www.safalra.com/web-design/css/white-space-property/

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