| Referrers |
| Published on 03/21/04 at 04:29:13 GMT by Jos |
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 Occasionally I will see a search using the keyword "referrers".
Well this evening, upon checking our live referrer links list, I see a new visitor with 73 visits to the home page - more than any other single referrer to date. So I copy the URL into a new browser window with popup blocker ready to go and gingerly visit the site to see what is up. There I find a set of pages, SiteLibrary home page included, loaded into a series of iframes. Something similar to "The Referrer" site at Blogspot if you may have seen that, but not as creatively designed. The page was refreshing every minute, giving us a page load a minute while anybody would have that page open.
So I took a few steps and am rid of them for now.
- Put javascript to break out of frames on the home page.
- Change title and some of the text of referrers page to get rid of some of those keywords which are so very attractive to some people.
- Wrote the URL of the site in the hide list for the referrers script.
Still planned - track down their IP if possible and ban it from our site.
The site title appeared as "hi", and the URL was www.thespear.net/frame/. Other sites that were loading in their little frames:
www.space-planets.com/test.php
www.develnet.org
htgracing.com
littlegreenfootballs.com
www.bluesock.org/~willg/blog/
www.oddballin.com
www.szewo.com/php/referer/
All ending with a cute little note - "allright. there we go. backlinks! yah."
At the moment, if you go there, you will find SiteLibrary popping out of their frames. |
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