On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:27:18 +0100, Victoria Clare <victoria@markpoles.org.uk> wrote:
> "Fritz M" <nospam@masoner.net> wrote in news:1118160383.736538.210680
> @g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>
>> To help fight referer spam, be sure to Disallow your stats page in
>> robots.txt.
>
> Or even better, put your stats page behind a password. It's not unknown
> for even well-behaved spiders to hiccup on robots.txt and index something
> they shouldn't, and that data is also commercially valuable.
>
> On the whole, the only people other than you who are interested in that
> data are your direct competitors and their SEOs - so why help them out?

Some clarifications. My stats pages are public for a good reason. They
are public so it is easier for me to sell direct ads and links from my
sites. I cannot make them private because of some spamming lowlifes.

My stats are produced with analog, and the list of top referrers lists
them (and would list spammers), but the list has no clickable items,
only website names. No <A HREF> there. I doubt that major search
engines would pick up those addresses, but I am not certain.

i