Package: webalizer Severity: normal Somebody is using by referrer logs for search engine spamming. They set the referrer field to their webpage, and then hit my server enough times that they end up in the top 30 referrers displayed in the statistics.
If you look at http://www.kollegiegaarden.dk/webalizer/usage_200501.html#TOPREFS you can see that there are 13 entries with exactly 50 referrer hits, for pages like http://paris-hotel-las-vegas.go.ro/ and http://reno-hotels.go.ro/. Actually I think only 1 out of 30 items on that list is genuine. It would be a nice simple solution if webalizer supported rel=nofollow (http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html). If this was implemented then the motivation for this spam would quickly disappear. Since the links has no real value for calculating page value in the first place there seems to be no negatives involved with getting them disregarded by search engines. -Thue -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-rc3 Locale: LANG=da_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=da_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
