Talk:Referrer spam/Archives/2015
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Recent referer spam
This article seems to mix old occurrences of referrer spam (2006-2008) with recent ones (2014-2015). I think the current referrer spam it not targeted at search engines anymore (spamdexing) but targeted towards webmasters. One evidence of this is that a lot of referrer spam websites are promoting SEO tools or SEO related help. 62.203.102.56 (talk) 17:10, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
+1 with your remark. When I wrote this blog article: https://piwik.org/blog/2015/05/stopping-referrer-spam/ I read Wikipedia and was surprised by this. Here is what I wrote in the article instead:
The benefit for spammers is that their website will appear in analytics tools like Piwik or Google Analytics:
- public analytics reports (or logs) will be indexed by search engines: links to the spammer’s website will improve its ranking
- curious webmasters are likely to visit their referrers, thus bringing traffic to the spammer’s website