How do I stop phantom referrals?

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  kelloggs77 · Member · Jun 22, 2012 at 4:28 pm

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  How do I stop phantom referrals?
  I received two strange referrals sites on my stats page yesterday. Neither site had any link to my blog, nor did it have anything to do with my blog subject. In fact, they were in completely different languages. Is there something I can do to keep this from happening? And are these sites malicious?
  Blog url: http://areyoufinishedyet.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Jun 22, 2012 at 10:01 pm

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  I have flagged this thread for a Staff response.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 22, 2012 at 10:03 pm

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  They don’t appear to be spam to me, possible just someone headed to your site after viewing those.

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  kelloggs77 · Member · Jun 23, 2012 at 4:43 am

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  Thank you both for your responses. I appreciate it.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 23, 2012 at 5:40 am

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  You’re welcome!