Messages posted by: megavolt

Found this in Wikipedia. Answered some of my questions, but not all. Thought someone may be interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer_spam

Carbonize wrote:A referrer is just a referrer. Even if the page they requested didn't exist they would show up in the log.

True, but usually the referrer has a link on their referring page to my site that does the referring (in that particular section of my statistics). Here not only are there are no links on the referring page, there are no links on the whole site. I've checked through the source pages for some sort of hidden link, but none there. Their "referrals are mostly spam sites that are messing up all my statistics. The big question still stands - is this phenomena a direct result of having the guestbook or is there no connection?

Thanks
Are these referrers really getting in by way of the guestbook, or they will still have access even if I uninstall the guestbook? I don't understand the connection.

I'm having a problem with fake referrals (casino, drugs, porn...the usual) showing up in my site statistics, filling up the logs and wasting a lot of my time. My hosting service has been trying to find out where they are coming from, and are convinced that they are coming in through my "Advance Guestbook". Does anyone know anything about this and/or how to stop these fake referrals from showing up?
Thank you

I am using "Advanced Guestbook" on my site and I'm getting spammed something wicked, even though I am using "human verification". What I have noticed though, is that mostly all of the spam (probably robots) are coming directly to the guestbook from the "outside", and not from my site. Is there a relatively simple way that I can block direct entry to my guestbook so that my visitors can only get to the guestbook from a link on my site?
Just please keep in mind that I don't know much concerning PHP or any other type of programming.
Thank you