weird referring site – reason to worry?
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I just checked my stats and I have a somewhat weird referring website there. It’s called legal5ounds(dot)com and I don’t see how it could be a real referrer. As (a) my blog has nothing to do with music, (b) they don’t seem to have something like a twitter/social bookmarking ticker which could explain this and (c) I can’t find any referring link by searchign their website.
Do I have to worry about some weird new form of spamming or something? Or should I just shut up and be happy that I get traffic?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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It’s not real. Do not click the link. Yes, it’s spam. Simply report this to Staff > http://en.support.wordpress.com/
P.S. There other threads on this in the forum searchbox but it’s my opinion that sharing this on the forum is not the way to go.
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I have a similar issue when checking one of my pages witha website called ‘boobieblog’ coming up. This was a real concern to me as my page is for a professional service.
I appreciate your answer timethief.
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Thank you timethief! Of course, dumb me did already click on the link. Time to virus-scan the computer, I guess, and learn for the future. :(
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will something wrong happen if we click those weird referrings??
I often check where my referrer comes from…so I click the link
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I have the same issue. Clicking on the site won’t do harm unless something was downloaded on to your computer (which requires permission). I was happy about getting bloated statistics…
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No, sometimes just viewing can cause malware to be added to your computer. It’s always best to be careful.
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I’m not sure why legal5ounds would link to my blog but I have
seen on non-Wordpress blogs that they leave generic comments,
I’d guess in the hope people will click on their link out
of curiousity. I wish they’d just get lost from my site – none
of their comments get registered because I’d guess they’re spam
and they just screw up the stats for the blog – they appear to
click on more than your homepage by the way. I wish there was
a way to block them from referring to my blog and they’ve been
referring 20 times a day now for three days. Some always try to
ruin it for others….. -
Do not click the link. Yes, it’s spam. Simply report this to Staff > http://en.support.wordpress.com/
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