Talk:Referrer spam/Archives/2016

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How can the spelling mistake in the article title be corrected? It shoud be referrer, not referer. Within the article, the use fluctuates between double "r" and single "r" a few times... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.63.141.232 (talk) 13:43, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

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This article is MUCH too advanced for somebody who doesn't already know what referer spam is. Details are fine but how about a less technical explanation as well?

I moved the tech stuff to a separate subsection. It is completely focused on the Apache server, though. Is that NPOV?

--84.192.179.195 19:16, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Couldn't rel=nofollow be used for this? Thavron 17:19, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: NPOV... Apache is by far the most common... I wouldn't call it NPOV (since this is not an article about web serving software), just incomplete because there's no IIS guru to suggest how to handle it in IIS. --Code65536 23:53, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: RewriteEngine... I personally would not use the RWE for this, simply because not everyone has it turned on, and a more universal (and also easier to read/parse) solution would be to use SetEnvIfNoCase (I'll change it) --Code65536 23:53, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

When this technique was first being used, and shortly later publicised on 09/11/2003, it was utilized to popularize a not-for-profit blog operated by a person who has not used that blog to make money but rather rant about politics and whatever else. The technique originally targeted Apache Server Statistics pages that linked back to the referer, NOT blogs or blogrollers, although it rapidly became apparent that the majority of accumulated pagerank came from bloggers with links that actually appeared on real websites that human beings actually used. This was unfortunate because the author of the technique intended only to create an automated googlebomb that would not interfere with any human beings perception of the web, merely public record server logs that for the most part nobody other than Googlebot ever looked at in the first place. This information is presented firsthand from a developer for the purposes of history and to present perspective to future authors editing this page. 70.162.81.229 01:09, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

This is Wikipedia, not the Apache user's guide. That stuff is useful but doesn't really belong on this page. I'm deleting it, but it'll still be in the history if someone finds a more appropriate place for it (most likely in an actual Apache user's guide). 64.148.37.25 (talk) 07:28, 3 May 2008 (UTC)