problem links in from bad webpages

need help with perverts inlink

[walrus]

This website shows up on the sites that link to mine.
They dont show on Arin Whois so what can i do.
I need to get them to sto linking to me.
They dont even deserve to be allowed to have a website.
Anyone else got kids?

Signed a concerned father and webmaster

[edited by: oilman at 5:28 pm (utc) on Feb. 17, 2004]

[TheDoctor]

1. Remove the URL. It's against the TOS.

2. Go over to the Apache web server forum and post your problem there. Someone will be able to tell you how to block links from a specific site.

[walrus]

Thanks Doctor!
How do i edit an old post,cant seem to find
that option.
I only see the owner edit option on this reply.

I'll post this as suggested.
But what about the impact of clients researching me and seeing that, or it affecting my Google rank as the quality of inlinks matters.

[keyplyr]

walrus, you can block referrers from undesirable sites through mod_rewrite (as mentioned, see the Apache Forum) however, you cannot stop websites from placing links to you. Frankly, I wouldn't worry about it since it may continue whether you like it or not. I don't feel it damages your reputation at all. You are probably the only 'non-undesirable' aware of it anyway ;)

[Rosalind]

Walrus, many prominent search engines and portals are linked to from extremely unsavoury places, and it does them no harm. Mostly it's "Click here if you are under 18", which was what Disney was so bothered about. As long as you don't link back you won't be tarred by the same brush.

If the site is in fact breaking the law you could complain to their ISP or take it to the police. Otherwise there's nothing else you can do, other than not linking to them from WebmasterWorld.

[walrus]

Thanks everybody!
This forum really is great most of the time.
Those seem like good arguments so i'll just leave it alone.
What still bugs me though is what does teacher sex suggest when most of the worlds students are minors.
Sorry about posting the link.
Gues its to late to edit that out of here though.
Thanks again really appreciated

[decdim]

I'm having "rot link" problems from "referring sites". Use something like this in your .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (DOMAIN1¦DOMAIN2) [NC]
# Uncomment (remove the #) from one of the following RewriteRules
# 1 - Send unwanted requests/referals to a custom 403 page
# 2 - Cause unwanted requests to "fail"
# RewriteRule!^error/403\.php$ - [F]
# RewriteRule .* - [F]

There is a third option to send them back to the referring site; check the Apache forum on doing that (might be RewriteRule .* [DOMAIN1.TLD...] [F])

The other option is to use the "mapping" rule (don't ask me for help, I couldn't get it to work so I used the HTTP_REFERER)

[walrus]

Still havnt had time to read up n that stuff.My service says because im shared host i cant use htaccess or that it was only for unix i cant remember,either way,thanks again!