spam referrers

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  yeskids · Member · Feb 8, 2011 at 4:13 pm

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  Why am I getting more and more spam referrers. I continue to get ones I have sent in to support. Mainly the “other sources” is going higher and higher. Why?

  Does this affect my rating at all or real searchers finding me? It makes my statistics look better – but is that actually a negative?

  This just started in the last month. Have had the Blog for almost 4 years.

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 8, 2011 at 7:41 pm

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  This situation is merely an annoyance. It does not affect your blog’s standing with Google in any way.

  Staff have created a filtering system. They have requested that we do not click the spam refferer links because that is what the spammers want us to do. They have also requested that we do not post any referrer information into forum threads, but instead that we report all spam refferer links directly to them. Thanks for doing that.

  NOTICE TO ANY MEMBER READING THIS THREAD
  Please do not post any information here at all. If you have not reported the links directly to Staff please do that now. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/