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heidigoseek



Joined: 28 Sep 2004
Posts: 17
Location: Monroe, MI

PostPosted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:29 pm    Post subject: Block Referring Sites Question Reply with quote

Is there any way to block specific referring sites to my BlogHarbor site?

Apparently my name sounds like porn can be found on my site and people keep coming there expecting it (and they're probably sorely disappointed when they don't!). I would rather not have that kind of traffic so I was wondering if we had the ability to block referrers of our choosing.
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john
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Joined: 16 Mar 2004
Posts: 3434

PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:01 am    Post subject: Re: Block Referring Sites Question Reply with quote

We don't have that capability at this time. Let us know if it gets to be more than just a minor nuisance and we will see what we can do for you.
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heidigoseek



Joined: 28 Sep 2004
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Location: Monroe, MI

PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Will do! It hasn't happened with my BlogHarbor site yet (that I know of), but when I was over at TypePad I also noticed that my images started getting picked up by places like Google Images (particularly images of my old couch) and other such engines, which would be another reason why I would be interested in this capability...

Granted I'm not sure why anybody would want a picture of my old grandma looking couch, but I think I would rather keep that on my site and off other people's.
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pembeci



Joined: 24 Sep 2004
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You may wanna check these tricks:

http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/stealingimages.html
http://insights.iwarp.com/advanced/secureimages.html (link from the first one)

I am not sure if they will prevent Google to index your images though.
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john
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's a very interesting trick, posting your images as background images to a table, then using a transparent gif to make the table the same size as the image... I'd never heard of that one before. Thanks for the tip!

As for heidigoseek's grandma's couch... That must have been some couch. Wink
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