Are spam referrers a problem?

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  damionmoyer · Member · Aug 30, 2011 at 11:26 pm

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  Every day I have a referrer listed that looks like this:

  [Spam URL removed]

  Sometimes the first term in the URL changes, but the basic format is always the same. Clicking this link takes me to a spam website. Is this something that can be blocked? Does it NEED to be blocked? I can’t really see how they are benefiting by referring to my blog, but if they are, I’d love to be able to prevent it.

  Thanks for providing a terrific service!!
  Blog url: http://mycrankygut.wordpress.com/

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  kardotim · Member · Aug 31, 2011 at 3:58 pm

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  This does appear to be spam and I’ve passed this link on to our team. Thanks for your report.

  In the future, please contact us via http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ and file a private request (if the option presents itself) to report these, as we don’t want to provide any further publicity for the spammers.

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  damionmoyer · Member · Aug 31, 2011 at 4:55 pm

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  Will do. Thanks!