I am experiencing referrer spam from http://r-e-f-e-r-e-r.com/ (don't click) - What should I do?

[danatanseo]

It amazes me that every day in search marketing is filled with something new that I don't know or never heard of.

Most of you are probably familiar with referrer spam, but I hadn't ever heard of it before. I am currently experiencing referral spam on my personal blog. What's the best way to get rid of this pest? Shall I ignore them? Block them in my robots.txt file? Use Google's Disavow? or should I just plain holler "Curse you referral spam people!!!"  ?

Thanks all!

[Saijo.George]

I assume you are already nofollowing those links .

Is the referral links appearing in the trackback section ( or something similar ). What kind of CMS do you run , perhaps there is a way to blacklist certain domains . ( On wordpress http://akismet.com/ does a pretty good job on the comment and trackback front for me )

[danatanseo]

Thanks Saijo,

I am on Blogspot and the referral spam is not coming in the comments. I am being referral bombed by this Web site because they are trying to sell me on their services. All I can say is, Yuck!

I can't "nofollow" anything because they technically haven't placed a link on my site anywhere. They are, however, grossly distorting my pageview count because they are artificially sending "visits" via this URL (please don't visit it - there could be malware, etc):  http://r-e-f-e-r-e-r-.com/

The only reason I posted my question here was to find out from the Moz community whether they think this is something worth worrying about or not.

[Everett]

I wouldn't worry about it too much from an SEO perspective. You could set up filters in Google Analytics to get rid of the noise so you can see your metrics without these referrals in the mix.