Marcia - 10:35 am on Feb 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

>>if all of your people are sending referrers

They aren't all unwelcome and not all are a PITA. Most visitors are 100% legitimate and more than welcome. If someone comes in from search using a search phrase such as "discount yellow widgets" or "yellow widget stores," then it's a living, breathing human being and they'll find what they're looking for. But if they arrive with the single search word "widgets" then it's software running for either data mining (no biggie) or to scrape for MFA sites, and the latter are a nuisance and represent a hazard for some sites if they go far enough, which many do.

I do know there's a way to sniff for s/e referral query strings and then process accordingly, but it was a long time ago, so my memory on it is very dim.

>>If I am not mistaken, I got this code a while back off webmasterworld.

Jake, I've been spending a lot of time "reading" in the code forums at WebmasterWorld (which I heartily recommend, rather than just copying and pasting), and unless I can "read" what something is doing, I won't use it until I know what it'll do.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (milf) [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (x x x) [NC,OR] RewriteRule .* - [F]

Do (milf) and (x x x) represent what actual query words could be? If so, then that could do it.

[edited by: Marcia at 10:49 am (utc) on Feb. 18, 2008]