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With a lot of weblogs wearing their referrers on their sleeves, the Mastodonte Advertising campaign could prove to be a big stumbling block for blogdex. Given, it remains to be seen whether or not someone will pay $1k for the service, just their initial spam shot up blogdex in a matter of hours.
I would imagine that over time, as referrer logs get more clogged with distracting messages (and don't think that Mastodonte is the first group to use this technique), there will be less of an incentive to post your referrers on your front page, and this problem will correct itself. But until then, any suggestions on how to solve this conundrum would be appreciated.
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can't we block the ad spams from the Blogdex engine?
Wouldn't it be enough to block the ip-address of the Mastodonte-Spider?
e.g. on my website the spider always comes with one ip-address:
# Mastodonte-Referrer-Blocker
order deny,allow
deny from 207.253.71.48
On that Mastodonte page they give an opt-out email address, has anybody actually had any luck with that? Seems a lot easier just to opt out than to ban/write special checks, etc.
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The solution for individual weblogs is pretty easy: they need to check for a link to your page on the referring page before posting the reciprocal link. Even a robot like your title collector could check every few hours.
Most of time the reciprocal referer links are linked without titles (just the URL), so you might consider reducing the value any link that starts with "http://" between the anchor tags by some factor. At the very least it would keep the spammers off the front page.