Thanks to recent developments, we no longer get quite as many hits from porn sites. Guy porn sites, I guess I should say—I keep forgetting that romance novels are “pornography for women.” So thanks to all of you chick-porn readers and ladysmut writers for linking to Smart Bitches. It’s nice to know we have an audience other than those looking for “bitches humping bitches.”
But now there’s a new category of people who are coming to our site, thanks to my blog entry on 110 Banned Books: hapless high school and college students looking for homework help. Witness the following search terms that led people to this site:
- Why Huckleberry Finn is a great American novel
- give at least 3 conflict found in the novel scarlet letter
- superficial attractiveness in the catcher in the rye
- Ivan Denisovich themes Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- whitman books animal 1 2 3
Poor bastards. No help here. Here’s a thought: read the freakin’ books and do the homework yourself.
But not to worry, pervy bastards are still our top search engine visitors:
- freakin strange bitches (well, I guess we are)
- Dominican bitches (ahhhh, the ever-popular Bitch varietal!)
- nude billiard pictures (I didn’t know billiard balls were normally clothed)
- pictures of hot bitches (if you find backfat “hot”, I can probably contrive to put up some photos of my sexy little self)
- Creampie shots (whoa, that’s FAST—I posted the entry containing those words just days ago)
And finally, somebody looked for “poor reading habit and how to overcome them” and found our site. Buddy, according to many people, our reading habits are the worst one can indulge in. They’re so bad, I just ended my sentence with a proposition. See, you read trash, you write trash too.
Oh, do share how you reduced your referrer spam? Was it something in EE or .htaccess? I’m drowing in porn links for my site stats and I don’t know how to get rid of ‘em!
Well, the fact that people other than porn spammers were visiting our site helped tremendously, heh. But yeah, I created a .htaccess file and placed it in the root directory, and then I also used the User Banning tool in EE (it’s in the Admin section) to ban the IPs from the offending sites.
Here’s what I have on my .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (za.pl) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (audio.ya.com) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (go.ro) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (tiscali.fi) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (spyware) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (istarthere.com) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (datashaping.com) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (newprinceton.com) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (xopy.com) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (webdevboard.com) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (devaddict.com) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (whiteguysgroup.com) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (guestbookz.com) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (webdevsquare.com) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (singles-?christian) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (dating-?christian) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (christian-?dating) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (jewish-?singles) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (swinging) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (swingers) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (personals) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (sleep-?disorders) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (insomnia) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (herbal) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (herbal-?sleep-?aid) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (gabapentin) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (melatonin) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (effective-?enlargement) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Program Shareware|Fetch API Request) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Microsoft URL Control) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
Basically, any referrer with URLS using the words contained between the parantheses after {HTTP_USER_AGENT} are blocked from accessing the site. I check the referrer log every day and periodically update the .htaccess file and the Banned IP list. Hope this helps!