arkitrave :: log

This just in, from my referrer log.

Reffy is a Windows-based mass referrer spammer, which means that it will make a connection to a buttload of sites of your choosing with any referrer URL and User-Agent that you specify. This accomplishes several things. Firstly, it generates webmaster traffic from webmasters checking their referral statistics. Secondly, it boosts your link popularity and thereby your Google PR, because a lot of sites have public referral stats with linked entries. Reffy operates on textfiles with URL-lists, and a textfile of 3047 active blog websites which you can use to start getting free traffic and PR right away is included!

So, if you need it in clearer English, someone who owns the domain, for example, isuck.com, buys the software and programs it to visit my and, well, your site, faking that the traffic is coming from isuck.com. This puts their domain out there, giving isuck.com ill-gotten publicity on my site. Pretty fishy.

Only $50, and all this can be yours. I appreciate the page’s honesty; it’s nice to know exactly what they’re up to and why they are spamming my referrer log. Now, in addition to comment spam, I’ll have to go into my SQL database and take out their domain. Anyone have any ideas on how to damage control once this software really gets off the ground?

Bastards.