Stats/Referrers

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  rmoazed · Member · Apr 4, 2011 at 10:07 pm

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  Does anyone ever find that in they have strange websites listed as referrers to their blog? It makes me wonder if the hits that I supposedly got due to the reference of these websites are actually real people.

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

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 4, 2011 at 10:24 pm

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  Yes, they’re referrer spam, like comment spam.

  Just contact us via http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ to report them and we’ll add them to our filters.

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  rmoazed · Member · Apr 4, 2011 at 11:41 pm

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  Thank you!

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  theproteusexperiment · Member · Apr 5, 2011 at 6:59 am

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  I have a related problem now – I seem to have a lot of new traffic from unkown sources. Previously, I could track my blog traffic to search terms, referrers, and usually a couple “direct” visits from friends. Now I have about 100x more traffic and it doesn’t also show up on any of these other ways. It’s all “direct” traffic to my home page.

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  justjennifer · Member · Apr 5, 2011 at 7:37 am

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  @macmanx- at this point there are multiple forum posts regarding spam referrers, all of which request people to contact Support directly, that maybe it is time for a sticky post at the top of the forum until this problem is resolved? Thanks!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 5, 2011 at 8:06 am

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  Yeah, I suppose it might be time for that. I’ll check with the rest of the team and we’ll put something together.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 5, 2011 at 6:03 pm

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  @justjennifer – Sticky created: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/regarding-referrer-spam

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  timethief · Member · Apr 5, 2011 at 6:06 pm

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  Than you! :)

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 5, 2011 at 6:08 pm

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  You’re welcome!

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  timethief · Member · Apr 5, 2011 at 6:16 pm

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  here’s that missing “k” lol :D I was so relieved to hear about the sticky post I forgot to type it.

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  justjennifer · Member · Apr 5, 2011 at 6:52 pm

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  /happy dance!

  Thank you, macmanx!

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  justjennifer · Member · Apr 5, 2011 at 6:53 pm

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  Oh, and please close this thread? :)

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  sl1k · Member · Apr 5, 2011 at 7:03 pm

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  Thread closed please refer to the sticky post → https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/regarding-referrer-spam instead of creating a new thread…