Block referrers

You can prevent the visitors of given websites from opening up your website through a link on the offensive website.

This feature is commonly used when fighting the so-called "Referral spam". Referral spam is used by websites who make false requests to your website in order to get listed in your web access statistics. This way if your statistics are web-accessible and a search engine processes them, the search engine would mark a link to the offensive website and would raise its ranking.

The Block Referrers feature would also prevent the hotlinking of your content by the offensive website.

Blocking a referrer

To block a referrer:

1. Click Add new domain.
2. Type in the domain name.
3. Check Include all subdomains if you wish to block all subdomains.
4. Click Add.

Afterwards, the blocked domain name will show up in the list of Blocked Domains.