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1. sdollen
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   I've noticed on my referer logs that I have a ton of the poker, pharmacy, etc. linking to my photo gallery. Not sure why they picked the gallery. I'm not getting spam posts, probably because I'm moderating everything and have used a ton of plugins.

   So, I guess they are trying another route by trying trackbacks (which I also turned off) and now my photo gallery.

   After all that garbage I typed (sorry, lol) would an easy way to foil their links be to just change my gallery directory?

   Any thoughts? I'm using Gallery from Menalto.

   Thanks in advance :)

2. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 7 years ago #

   http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/ref-karma/

   http://www.tomrafteryit.net/using-htaccess-to-minimise-comment-and-referrer-spam/

3. sdollen
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   thanks for those links, mac. I already had ref-karma installed. I think I have it setup correctly. I've looked at it's logs but only see two sites whitelisted and none on the blacklist. I think though, what I haven't done and need to do, is that I need to put the karma line in the Gallery default header file.

   Maybe that's why they are linking to the gallery and not the main page? Makes sense.

4. angsuman
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Referrer Bouncer - A Plugin to bounce referrer spam; requires no upfront configuration, no mod-rewrite.

5. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 7 years ago #

   I think though, what I haven't done and need to do, is that I need to put the karma line in the Gallery default header file.

   Yes, the code needs to be at the very top of the gallery's index file, or else RK will never see the referrer.

   The plugin stated above, Referrer Bouncer, is a plugin for WordPress and won't work for pages outside of WordPress (your Gallery, for example). But let's cut Angsuman some slack. He's excited since he just released it today.

6. sdollen
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Thanks again, mac. And thanks angs. I'm going to try out the plugin too. I'm always interested in ways to get rid of my 900+ referer links (which is probably a drop in the bucket compared to some popular blogs around here).

   thanks again to both of you :)

7. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Heh, it just struck me that I should mention what I do. Lol, sorry. Anywho, I use Referrer Karma, but since I run PHP as CGI (for security reasons), it does not return the proper 403 to the referrer (so the referrer still winds up on my logs). What I do is use Referrer Karma to notify me of the bad referrers and then block them ASAP using Tom's .htaccess method: http://www.tomrafteryit.net/using-htaccess-to-minimise-comment-and-referrer-spam/

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