Legitimate referrers with "spam?" appearing next to them on stats

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  bobbyguerrieri · Member · Feb 20, 2014 at 7:45 pm

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  Hi everyone. It seems like most of my referrers (including IMDb and Reddit) now have the word spam with a question mark next to them. How can I notify WordPress that these sites are not spam referrers? Most of my traffic comes from these two sites and it would really hurt if those views stopped counting! Thanks in advance!

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  susan542 · Member · Feb 20, 2014 at 9:30 pm

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  I am having this same problem. Just showed up today. The word Spam? is printed over nearly all of my referrers.

  Site is greenlivingpdx.com

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  timethief · Member · Feb 20, 2014 at 9:36 pm

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  Please see here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-referrer-reporting?replies=1

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  sloopie72 · Member · Feb 20, 2014 at 9:45 pm

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  And here I am with the stupid question of the day: how do we know if a referrer is spam?

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 20, 2014 at 9:56 pm

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  It takes long experience. It’s trickier than determining spam comments. I wouldn’t mark anything as spam unless I knew for SURE it was spam. That would be things like sites that scrape and steal your content, others that link to you until you click through to see their site, then delete the link, porn sites, things like that.