How to foil spam referers?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 ??

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