If you’re like me and you have your face stuffed into your website’s statistics reports all day, you might have noticed from time to time you have some pretty interesting referring URLs listed. Mostly you might be wondering how the hell someone gets from some random Russian porn site filled with ads to your innocent little site which is totally unrelated. Well there is a way that this is done and there is also a good reason behind it.
It’s called “Referrer Bombing”. It is very easy to do and there a number of different methods. There is the manual way, where you use a handy little Firefox plugin called RefControl. Like so:
What this does is spoof your referral URL with whatever you want which in turn shows up in the stats log causing webmasters to give in to their curiosity and check out your site.
There is another way and that is to have written (or just buy one from someone) a program/script that does this en mass. A ReferrerBot if you will. What these apps can do is simply run 24/7 spamming (yes i would call it spamming) your URL to a massive list of sites that you could get off someone or find yourself thru certain services.
You can see how this might be a sneaky way to increase your hits and maybe even convert them into profits, however there are problems in doing this to attempt to increase your affiliate commissions. Spoofing cookies is not true directed traffic, it is fake redirection of the traffic which is a black hat method. Most of the time this would be detected by affiliate managers and could land you without a paycheck or even banned from their networks.
So in conclusion, this is a way to get a little bit more traffic to your site but not a very good way to increase your commission profits. You could however go on a RickRolling rampage just for the hell of it!
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