Evil Spammers have found a new way to be The Spawn Of Satan. They are spamming blogger web site referral logs. You can find a blog discussion of it here at Blogroots
Go read the rest of this article in Wired for more on what new kind of evil The Spawn Of Satan have thought up:
Referral logs, intended to collect information on who visited a website and how they happened to arrive there, are being stuffed with bogus links. Curious bloggers who click on a logged link to see who visited their site are instead led to pornography or advertising sites.
Some bloggers publish a list that automatically updates links to sites that have linked to them. So visitors to spammed blogs who explore the link lists also find those sites full of porn and sales pitches.
In most cases the link spam appears to have been added to logs by one of several companies that are selling a service they describe as "referral marketing."
This page is a list of domains that are the known sources (at least so far) of the sites known to generate referral log spam. They do it by going around and reading pages many times for each web log and passing in a referral URL that is for porn or some other advertisement. You can tell this guy Philip Pearson if you see other domains showing up as the sources of web log spam and he will add new domains to his list.
Posted by Randall Parker at October 26, 2002 11:33 PM