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example.com/my_domain/one_of_my_web_page
I visited the referer link using my browser and saw a page with nothing but a link to my web site. What I really concern is that the incoming requests were from many different IPs (from different countries, different ISPs ) and could come at any time. They did not do anything bad so far. But they all visited one specific page of my web site (that page has nothing special at all).
I composed some server side program to block all requests with such referer string. Beginning this morning, they began to use another completely different referer string!
Would you please tell me what is happening? Thank you in advanced.
[edited by: sugarkane at 8:33 pm (utc) on Feb. 7, 2003]
It looks like they are doing dynamic pages themselves, incorporating whatever goes after the root folder into the URL they are using.
As to why they are doing it?
Maybe its an attempt to use the keywords in other people's URLs, maybe its an attempt to cheat pagerank by someone who doesn't quite get it, maybe its some theme spamming attempt, maybe they are just testing out a new idea to see if it works... Who knows!
You could just block any referrers which originate from that site (Using like or regexp logic) which would stop them doing this unless they launched from another domain, but obviously this would not work if you need real traffic to come from that site.
- Tony
