How are they changing their referring URL?

[Kcs5]

I know there is a simple answer out there somewhere..

I have a blog to update information about my fundraising web site. The hits to this blog come from known places except for the past 2-3 days. People are accessing it from pages I've never been too myself and I am not linked on anyway (I've checked sources and there are no links to my blog/site at all).

So I know they are changing the referrer somehow or another. Is this what I've seen referred to as "referral spam"? How do they do this? I am just wanting to know, not to do it myself! LOL. :)

[moltar]

Yes it is referral spam. It is very easy to fake. It's all done by bots automatically. It's not actual people visiting your site from their browser. It's most likely a program or a script just requesting your page.

[Kcs5]

I would think it was just bots except I know how they are finding my site.. and you can't use a script, program, etc. to run that (it's similar to an auto surf program but you cannot auto surf).

Links are clicked on my page, I've had one of them email me as well.. but I didn't ask that person how they spoofed the referer.

[moltar]

There are also programs that let you turn off referrer in your browser or swap it for something else. They could be using one of those.