Hello Forum!

I have just discovered in google webmaster tools that a porn site has liked to one (just one) entry of my blog. I could not discover any extra code in the template for the blog.
I read on Wikipedia about Referrer-Spam, and it says (in my translation) that " a spambot leaves a Referrer with the URL of the offer on as many as possible websites. If one of the websites publishes its Referrer, what is especially popular among web-blogs, there are also spam links to porn sites."

If I understand this correctly, the spam bot left the pornlink on my blog entry that entails name Cynthia. Also, I changed the name of my couch folders few weeks ago, and webmaster tools shows 2 links from that site, with changed folder name....as if that spambot was "bombing" my page constantly, so that changed link (because of changed folder name) does not matter....

So, is there any possibility to do anything? And to do it so, as not to stop other legal referrers from working in search engines for ranking?

thanks in advance

Tanja

[cheesypoof]

I'm not sure if I entirely understood what the problem was, but there are potentially two matters at hand here:

1. Any website can create a link on their page(s) that point to your website; you cannot stop this and it should not harm your search ranking. There isn't much you can do about it besides contacting the website in question.

2. If you have a commenting section, then that is an avenue for this type of unwanted linking. As with all situations where user submissions are allowed, you or your client should be moderating the content. Because this in your control, it could potentially harm your search ranking.

Thanks for answering cheesyspoof!

I thought there could be a way to stop or reject these spambots...
I know I cannot stop others from linking my content, but this seems not to be hand-linked and it is also not spamming the blog comments, I do not have comments there...My blog is about astrology of celebrities, so this spambot must be programmed so to search sites with female names and then links somehow automatically.... very strange! especially to me, as I am not into programming...
Good to know it cannot harm my site, it is only that I do not want to have my link on a pornography site...

thanks again

Tanja

[KK]

Hi Tanja

it is only that I do not want to have my link on a pornography site..

Somebody resorting to 'Referer-spam' doesn't have any reason to put your link on his porn site.
He has a different axe to grind - please see the following link where no less a person than Matt Cutts himself explains what is going on
http://www.seroundtable.com/referer-spam-16321.html

In short, there is nothing to worry about - the spammer has not succeeded in making any changes to your templates nor has he placed a link to your site on some dubious site.
Your site, in all probability, is just one of the hundreds of site the spambot would be blindly targetting in a hope to drive traffic to its own site.

Hope this helps.

Hi KK!

Thanks for explaining and for the link...
I understand now what happens and what it is that I see in my webmaster tools....
Yes, no need to worry or take any action...

best regards

Tanja