unwanted referrers

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  ronbc · Member · Feb 3, 2011 at 7:04 pm

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  Half of the daily visits to my blog come from sites that seem to be merely commercial ads —
  are they real referrers, sending real readers?
  If not, can they be blocked in any way?

  Thanks for any info, and sorry if this is the wrong forum for the question.

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

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  sathitharan · Member · Feb 3, 2011 at 8:52 pm

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  it happened to me today, more than 60% of my visits today came from a ad site! a bit disappointed.

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  chaelenglish · Member · Feb 3, 2011 at 10:10 pm

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  This is also happening on my blog, increasingly in the last few days. It is corrupting my stats. There are some sites that keep popping up in my list of referrers, so if there is a way to block these I will be a happy blogger.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 3, 2011 at 10:28 pm

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  Yes, Staff are acting on this. 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 reffer links directly to them. If you have not reported the links directly to Staff please do that now. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

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  ronbc · Member · Feb 3, 2011 at 10:58 pm

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  Thanks for the info, timethief.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 3, 2011 at 11:01 pm

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  You’re welcome.