Fake Your Referer, Get More Traffic
When you visit a website, several pieces of information are usually recorded by that site. Your IP, Browser, and Referer address are a few of them. The Referer address is the address of the page you just came from. Most webmasters, from time to time, check their Referer log to see where their traffic is coming from. When they see traffic coming from a website they haven’t heard of, they go to check it out to see why this website linked to them.Using this to your advantage to build a little extra traffic for your site is easy. If you use Firefox (and you should, because IE is for morons), you can go grab a plugin called RefControl. Refcontrol allows you to overwrite the referer url that your browser normally sends to webpages with whatever you want. So just put in your site address and browse the web normally. Keep in mind that this will, in some cases, annoy the crap out of people, but if you know anything about Nickycakes, annoying the crap out of people is a benefit and not a drawback.
If you were so inclined, you could also write a curl script to go to random pages all day spamming your referer url all over the place. This will actually serve 2 purposes. First, as already mentioned, webmasters will check you out to see why you’re linking to them. Second, some statistics packages keep a public log of traffic, indexed by google. By spamming your referer all over the place, you will end up on some of these lists and generate backlinks for yourself. This is sometimes referred to as “Referer Bombing”.
And for the ultimate Rickroll, use http://www.internetisseriousbusiness.com as your referer at all times.
Nicky, your a fruit cake, but I love ya anyway…:-)
Cakes, I tried to grab that plugin and FF didn’t wanna install it… What up wit dat??
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Do any of these fool google analytics
This is absolutely priceless. Love it.
Thanks for the info.
I installed it, but I am looking for a automatic version.
Well I think it does john! My google analytic account for http://techxcell.com showed hits from a fake referer and on searching about it I was led here by here Google answers!
Anyone can tell me how to fake the iframe refferal url? So that i can iframe a hotlink prtect site
Nice trick.Thanks for that,I have seen a script that does that called referralx, but at last,I can do it free.Thx!
There is another software that is capable of referring to many, many more websites and gives much better results. It is called refererx. Check out their website http://www.refererx.com
I loved this post!! IE IS for Morons!!
My wish is that Microsoft STAY away from the browser market altogether.
Long Live FireFox!
Nice trick if you spam every site on the web maybe 4% will come visit you back so say a billion web pages 4million visitors a day sounds good.
Love it. Saw a lot of unknown referral links on my log and thought I would investigate where they came from.
Will try this addon.