I see 11 referral to my site from a adult url!

Please help find out how?

[kartiksh]

My site is clean and running since few years. When today i checked stats it says i have 11 referral from a url where only porn page hosted. how? Is this a tactic by stranger to ban my site from Google especially AdSense? i have visited the page and found no link of my site there.

Any idea?

[andye]

It's been known for sites to set up a web spider which visits your site, giving their site as the 'referer', thus giving the impression that their site sends you visitors.

This is particularly likely if you're site stats are available publicly, as you probably end up linking to them from your site stats page.

In essense it's a form of spam. Nothing much to worry about imo.

hth, a.

[kartiksh]

Thanks andye

I feel relief now.

[jetteroheller]

Since I have also a site which publishes referer stats, I have just made some weeks ago a black list from over 100 referer spamers.

There is also software to generate automatic such false referer log entries.

[Hobbs]

Actually I do get real links and even the logo of my large site copied onto some p0rn sites, I think they do that to gain credibility of some sorts, but so far it has never affected my Google rank or AdSense. Don't worry about it as long as it is not you who have placed those links there.

[netmeg]

There are companies that advertise putting fake referrer links into logfiles as a form of viral marketing. I own a web hosting company, and we see this a lot.

[Radejr]

I seen this before to a few times with one of my most popular sites.