Referral Link Spamming & Scamming

With the release of Blogger Stats, spammers now have yet another way to spam and advertise their site. This tactic has been around for sometime but now that Blogger has stats built in it has become more proficient.

"Why do I have porn sites linking to my site?"

These words echo the forums as users can't figure out why their Christian blog is being linked to by a such a site. In reality their blog link is not on the porn site at all. The owner of the porn site is spamming you through referral linking.

"Why, what do they gain by doing this you may ask."

As you look though your stats and see this unknown site referring to your site you want to click to see what this site is and if your link is really on it.  Now you just gave this unknown site a page view and the spammer wins with free advertisement.

In some cases these spammers may even lead you to a site which can be harmful to your browser or computers. Most anti-virus now days will show a "ok" or "warning" symbol next to sites within Google search before you click on them. This allows us to stay away from sites that maybe harmful to our computers. But with referral linking we can be tricked into visiting these sites unknowingly.

Be careful of the referral link spammers when viewing your stats! You cant stop them from doing this but you can be prepared.