spam ?

[skyrunner]

suddenly in the referers list im getting quite a few paris hliton, girls panties type links - anyone else getting this stuff - i assume its spam

is there anything we can do about it ?

[john]

As noted on this thread, some blog systems used to display a dynamically updated list of Recent Referers on their home page, so spammers would send forged web page requests to a popular blog in order for a link to the spammer's site to appear on the blog. The theory was that the outgoing link would increase the ranking in Google for the spammers site, not to mention get a few clicks from the curious.

Since our system does not generate a list of Recent Referers for display on your blog, the spammers don't get much benefit from the practice, and all we as bloggers end up with is decreased utility of our Site Stats...

We do some spam prevention for referers, but it is not possible to block referers via your control panel. If you have any that are excessive, please send us a support request so that we can look into it.