How can I stop unwanted websites linking to my blog?
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Random websites appear on my referrer list such as Amazon Mechanical Turk and Gmail Sign-in pages but when I visit these sites they don’t even have a link to my blog. Why do these sites appear on my referrers list and how can I stop websites other than wordpress blogs linking to my blog?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The closest you can get to accomplishing that is to make the blog private. To change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings
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See here for marking spam referrers https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-referrer-reporting?replies=3
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The Gmail sign-in means someone shared a link to a gmail address – so the who received the link is hidden behind the sign-in – the site is not a spam thing – it’s that you can’t see who received the link
The Staff did some checking on Amazon Mechanical Turk – and the site is legit – sorry can’t remember all what the staff said – but I have seen “Amazon Mechanical Turk” referenced a couple of times so it could be searched on probably
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