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20040723 Friday July 23, 2004

Referrer Spam Roller does provide a Spam filtering function, however it has no global file and is therefore uniquely maintained by every blogger.

Login, then click on "Website" tab then, "Settings". Put words in the field titled:
"Ignore referering URLs that contain any of these (comma separated) words:"

You can use this to block both Spam and internal sun domains from appearing in your public referrer list.

Alternatively you can remove referrers from your public site totally by removing the following code from your theme: Login, then click on "website" tab then, "Pages". Click "Edit" button next to the page named "Weblog". Then remove the lines that look similar to this (each theme is a little different):

 <div class="menubox"><h2 class="box">referers</h2>
   #showReferers(20 25)
 </div>

The nice thing about Roller is that you can still see all your referrers when you are logged in by clicking on "Weblog" tab, then "Referrers". This way you can still analyze what Google queries and bloggers are leading people to your content. (2004-07-23 11:56:56.0) Permalink Comments [16]