Adult Site Referrers Appearing In My Stats

[Scurramunga]

Hi,
For some time now when viewing my referrer stats I notice that a few of the referrers on the list are adult sites. This puzzles me because my site has nothing to do with adult topics and when I check the source code of the referrer page I cannot find any reference or link to my domain.

Can somebody shed some light please?

[edited by: encyclo at 12:44 am (utc) on Mar. 3, 2009]

[Woz]

Probably Log Spamming, ie., a spider logging into your site with a referral URL designed to place a link in your log files to either 1) obtain a back-link if you logs are indexed, and/or 2) to obtain a click through from curious webmasters.

Nothing much you can do to stop it so just ignore.

Onya
Woz

[Scurramunga]

Thanks Woz.

[piatkow]

I haven't spotted any of those for a while. I used to get quite a few at one time.

[Lexur]

Probably it means you have any kind of stats open to the public. If your server uses Webalizer, you'll find it in Google searching for "Usage Statistics for yourdomain.com" (without quotes).

[physics]

This info may be helpful (with some tweaking)
Apache log file tip - keeping worms and scans out of the normal log [webmasterworld.com]