{"id":427,"date":"2002-10-28T13:32:28","date_gmt":"2002-10-28T18:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=427"},"modified":"2002-10-28T13:32:28","modified_gmt":"2002-10-28T18:32:28","slug":"referral-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2002\/10\/28\/referral-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Referral Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired reports on the new phenomenon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,56017,00.html\">Referral Spam<\/a>, whereby marketers send a robot to my site that does nothing but inject a referrer into my logs.  <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s do a use-case scenario, shall we?  <\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.  Checking the old referrer log here..  Looky here &#8211; someone who isn&#8217;t actually referring to me but is trying to get my attention by injecting their message into my logs, therefore skewing my logs and causing me grief.  BOY, I&#8217;M REALLY MOTIVATED TO DO BUSINESS WITH THEM &#8211; I THINK I&#8217;LL BUY THEIR SHIT!<\/p>\n<p>Yeah right.<\/p>\n<p>Also, whoever wrote the Wired article is way out to lunch if they really think that injecting crap into referrer logs is going to affect someone&#8217;s search engine position.  The search engines make that determination based on actual links they find on other pages that actually really point to my blog.  Referral spam never actually creates a link anywhere, it just injects &#8220;to see a real loser dickhead marketing twit click here&#8221; links into my logs.  Which bloggers did she actually talk to who &#8220;ruefully admitted&#8221; that this non-issue was an issue to them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired reports on the new phenomenon of Referral Spam, whereby marketers send a robot to my site that does nothing but inject a referrer into my logs. Let&#8217;s do a use-case scenario, shall we? Hmmm. Checking the old referrer log here.. Looky here &#8211; someone who isn&#8217;t actually referring to me but is trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}