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How did you discover that they linked to you?
The reason I ask is because lately I’ve been getting a lot of referrer spam. A referring page will show up – from a totally unrelated site – only to find that they don’t actually link to my site, they’re just running some sort of bot to plaster their URL as a referrer when in fact it isn’t, in a very lame attempt to get traffic.
I’m wondering if this is the case here since none of the links I saw on the page matched up with any of the links in your signature.
The link is on this site: Online Casino. I have an “Add URL” facility on the page which I manually check. Just wondering if anyone uses any good systems that can automatically knock off obvious spam like this without me wasting time on tree felling and hedge scultpturing sites
Are you saying someone is linking to your site or filling out your link exchange form?
If someone is linking to your site then don’t worry about it. Google doesn’t penalize for who is linking to you.
If someone is spamming your link exchange form then its most likely a bot. You can take care of it by either adding a captcha to the form or use a little hack that stops bots on all my link exchange forms. Here is what I do
Add a new text field to your form
This will add an invisible text field to your form that real users cannot see but a bot can. A bot will normally fill in text fields that it doesnt recognize with random data so…
When the form is posted, check to see if that field has a value. If it doesn’t have a value then it was a real user and you can process the form. If the field does have a value then it was a bot. Simply don’t process anything and just send them to the thank you page so it looks like a successful submission. You could also take the ip address and ban it if you want.
[/CODE][CODE] //a bot. redirect and exit
} else {
//process your form
}
?>[/CODE]
