Preventing Referrer Spam
There is a plugin called Bad Behavior for WordPress that helps reduce referrer spam. As long as your log files are properly secured and not publicly available, then referrer spam isn’t much of a problem. However, if you’re like me and you don’t prefer links to nasty sites showing up in your StatPress dashboard, then Bad Behavior might be a plugin worth adding to your site. This site uses a combination of both Bad Behavior and WP-SpamFree which seems to catch almost all of the spam hits and comments. I don’t receive a lot of traffic so I can’t tell how this combination would work on a high volume site. As a minor warning, these plugins do seem to slow down response time just a bit.
