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Old 08-22-2008, 03:12 PM  
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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear View Post
i explained above why. because you may have a publicly viewable stats page , usually it links the top referring pages , these count as backlinks. they also do it incase you have a script that displays the "last 50 referring urls" on your page/blog etc. This technique is just "hit lots of sites , hope someone gives you a backlink for it "
k, thanks for the explanation, I don't have a referrers script like that on any of the sites, but I guess like you said it is a numbers game for the spammers
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