Benefit and Prevention of Referrer Spam

[LadyHoldem]

I know this has been covered before, but I think it was discussed with reluctance, noone wants to explain blackhat seo because they're afraid to spread it.

I have more than 100,000 clicks recorded already this month as a result of referrer spam. I really don't understand the benefit. There's the slim possibility that I will visit, I get that.

I also heard about the possibility that my awstats log is crawled, and a spider then follows to their page, but I'm not following that theory.

Also, can a refererr be banned? Some sites with some significant SEO troubles have reported being huge victims of referrer spam, and being unsure of the relation.. I'd just rather not.

[PokerAffiliateService]

I don't think a referrer can be banned because if it would you could use it to ban your competitors.

[MmS]

Spammers want to get on your logs which include referrer statistics. Some sites publish these logs so they get a free link when the logs are indexed. You can block them through .htaccess and mod_rewrite where you can block the IP (or an entire subnet) or the domain.

[Hazo]

Ahh the irony LOL

[Trikkur]

Spam post in the post about spam. Nice