Blocking Referrers
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We are getting quite a bit of traffic on our blog from a weird, fetish website. These visitors are not interested in our content except for how it satisfies their deviant behavior. And it’s kind of creepy to know they are looking at the individuals featured on our blog in a rather predatory way. Is there any way to block the traffic coming from this website?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Thank you. If you follow the instructions in this thread, you’ll save time getting answers in the future:
That said, unfortunately there is no way to block those referrers. It should be pretty plain which post they’re interested in; if it’s an older one, have you considered taking it offline? Just set it as Draft for a few weeks, delete all tags and categories and alt text on images and republish it and that will probably get it off the Google radar.
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Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately, it’s not a single post – these weirdos have glommed on to our blog and read all of it. It’s not just a single post that has gotten their attention. Now that they know about the blog, they cruise it all the time, and they’ve shared our URL with all their creepy friends on their own website. This is the bad side of social media.
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@sdonnell1960
If you choose to make the blog “private” the low life in question will not be able to view it but short of that there is nothing you can do. -
I’ve just noticed a referrer today that is pornographic in nature… how do I find out why they are interested in my blog? Can you tell what they are reading or what tag brought them to me… they have NOTHING to do with my blog content and it disgusts me to have them listed under referrers!
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This has been going on in my personal blog for years now. There is nothing we can do about it.
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It’s not personal: one of the main reasons they do this is to get YOU to go look at their blogs, because you see them when you check your stats. Another reason is that they hope to leave pingbacks on your blog so that OTHER people reading your blog will follow the pingbacks to their blog. Make sure to delete them so this is not possible, and once you’ve identified them as an annoying spammer, don’t look at their site again.
If you want to strike back, you could do what I’ve done. When porn surfers annoyed me, I made a post called BEAVER SHOTS and in it I put a photo of Beaver Cleaver, a De Haviland Beaver aircraft, and a Canadian woodlands beaver. I used a lot of keywords and to this day I’m in the top ten on Google for “beaver shots” and #1 on Bing. Somebody even left a comment, “Not what I was looking for, but FUNNY!” and submitted it to Digg.
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Thanks for your feedback. So, raincoaster, how do I delete them? I do like your strike back… takes what is yuck and makes it funny! Thanks for the idea… I’ll consider doing that too! As a matter of fact, I just did. Check out my ‘T & A’ post! Right back at them! But I still want to delete them if you can share how to do that?
Thanks,
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You cannot delete “referrals”. You can delete pingback and trackback spam found in your comments moderation queque. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pingbacks/
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If you’re seeing spam referrers – not one-off oddities, but blatant automated porn/scam spam appearing on many posts – please report it to staff:
Don’t post the URLs on the forum or your blog, it only encourages them.
@sdonnell1960 in your case it’s not spam, just a forum of people who seem to like your blog. (Ok so it is a bit weird, but they are real people who are actually visiting your blog, so the stats are accurate. Short of making your blog private there’s nothing that can be done about it)
@buddybreathing the porn referrer is gone now.
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Thank you SO much tellyworth… I saw that it was gone and I’m very appreciative of whatever you did to make it go away. So appreciated!
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Thank you tellyworth and timethief. I appreciate the insights. I’m going to check for pingback and trackback info to delete. And yes, these creepy visitors are actually visiting the blog and are certainly legit contributors to the stats on viewership. Thank you again for your help – and how quickly you responded!
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