20 Responses to “Fake Your Referer Part 2”

1. Yi Lu Says:
   January 12th, 2008 at 12:38 am

   LOL, never knew about autoit until now :O… Keep up the excellent work!

2. Mike Says:
   January 12th, 2008 at 6:30 am

   Possible to elaborate on it? What is autoit and what does it do combined with the other things?

3. nickycakes Says:
   January 12th, 2008 at 8:25 am

   figure it out. it’s not that complicated.

4. Rock Says:
   January 12th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

   Just wanted to add, for anyone wanting to do it with a Mac. RefControl + Automator + Automator Virtual Input = $$$$$$

5. BlackHat - White Hat Says:
   January 12th, 2008 at 11:19 pm

   Clever - just took a peek at autoit - and see quite a few possibilities there.

6. Someone from BWHacks Says:
   January 13th, 2008 at 3:22 am

   smart! But I think some bots or spiders with fake referer would do the same. After you posted your refcontrol post a few days ago, I was searching the web for something like this. I found a old progy called “StarProse Referrer Advertising” but couldn’t find a download
   So if anyone have it, pls post it here. Thx!

7. Mike Says:
   January 13th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

   Ok, now I got it what the idea behind is, quite simple actually. But you would need to autostumble thousands of pages daily in order to have enough curious webmasters checking you out plus to make money from it.

   What would be the best idea to monetize upon this?

8. Mike Says:
   January 13th, 2008 at 5:39 pm

   If someone would like to share or sell a finished and working proggie to autostumble whole day in a Firefox tab let me know: mikegg [at] gmx [dot] de

9. none Says:
   January 14th, 2008 at 12:33 am

   Great tips! Any chance you would share your autoit code to help make this work Nickycakes?

10. Wes Mahler Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 9:08 am

    honestly, I don’t get it, I’m missing something lol

11. Rock Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    Finally downloaded AutoIt on my PC. Been using my Mac a lot. Anyways, after about 10 minutes of googling and reading up on the syntax I wrote a quick 6 line mouseclick loop script that will click stumble how ever many times I designate it to. You could easily write a script that will loop until a keystroke is pressed and it would probably take less than 10 lines of code. Then you could just flip it on overnight and referrer bomb away, then wake up in the morning and shut it off.

12. none Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    Rock, would you be willing to share that? I can’t wrap my head around any type of coding even after reading 3 different tutorials supposedly for noobs lol.

    Wes, I’m in the same boat. I do understand the concept and nickycakes is pretty clever, but us non programmers will have a harder time to automate it.

    The basic idea is to make a ton of sites owners think you are visiting them from your site…as if you had a link or post about it. Many of those site owners may be curious when they look at their referral stats and wonder why your site sent them “traffic” (which is just you, controlling the referral URL). So because your site will show up in their stats you will likely get a lot of traffic from those curious site owners. if you target your stumble niche then it will be targeted traffic. Adding autoit to the loop does the same thing but automated the actual stumble surfing so you just set it and let it visit a few thousand sites, dropping your referral url all along, over night or something. The added bonus is some of the sites will also list their referrals onsite which links back to you.

13. Wes Mahler Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 9:25 am

    intersting lol, thanks none. [for lack of better SN to refer to you bylol]

14. SEO Videos Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    Yes It will be great, If some one can share the proggie with noobs like me.

15. nickycakes Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

    wtf proggie are you talking about dude

16. none Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    I’m not sure what proggie SEO videos is asking for but what I was asking for was your code/script for the autoit. I’ve been trying but can’t figure out how to get it to do anything, let alone do my stumbling for me lol.

17. nickycakes Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    Maybe you should come to my IRC channel (click the Cakes Chat link at the top for more info) and someone can help you out if you ask nice =)

18. Jason Says:
    January 20th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    Can Rock or anyone else elaborate on how to do this with a Mac?

    “Just wanted to add, for anyone wanting to do it with a Mac. RefControl + Automator + Automator Virtual Input = $$$$$$”

    I’m trying to get it to work but haven’t been able to pull it off yet. Also, do I need to buy Automator Virtual Input in order for it to work properly?

19. cranberries Says:
    March 15th, 2008 at 12:04 am

    Cool idea! I run mac but got run windows on a virtual machine with Parallels. I wrote a sweet little autoit script I’ll be running daily for a trial run.

    Any idea if Stumbleupon will cut me off for abusing its service?

    Also, when should I start seeing traffic benefits?

20. cranberries Says:
    March 16th, 2008 at 12:35 am

    Update: banned by Stumbleupon after a few days of following this strategy.

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