referrers are mostly unrelated sites

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  athowell420 · Member · Jul 31, 2010 at 3:17 pm

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  I’m curious why the referrers on my stats dashboard are always websites that are totally unrelated to my blog or my community. How does this happen?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jul 31, 2010 at 4:21 pm

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  Chances are that those referrers are a new kind of spam. This is a good discussion about spam referrers:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/unknown-referrers?replies=17

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  sl1k · Member · Jul 31, 2010 at 4:30 pm

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  Hi There!

  It’s also recommended to contact staff directly and provide them with the spam url’s http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact