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Could it be your domain was previously owned by someone that had a high SEO score? Were you the first to ever register that domain? The wayback machine can he

Could it be your domain was previously owned by someone that had a high SEO score? Were you the first to ever register that domain? The wayback machine can help answer that. [1] If you want to have some fun you can redirect requests based on the referrer to a site of your choice. Or maybe just create a blog entry on your site about referrer spam, your thoughts on porn sites, etc... [1] - https://archive.org/web/ https://archive.org/web/

smusamashah 5y ago
It's not on archive. I remember someone who greets HNers with a hairy egg. How do I do something like that?
- LinuxBender 5y ago
  One way is to look up the configuration examples for redirecting based on referrers specific to the web server or load balancer you are using. i.e. nginx, apache, haproxy, etc.. Another way is to do this in whatever scripting language your blog may be using. I prefer doing this in the server as I don't have to fork the php scripts. What web server daemon are you using?
  - smusamashah 5y ago
    It's on github pages so don't have that level of control on traffic. I dont think it's an option.
  - smusamashah 5y ago
    Found this https://github.com/MohamedBassem/spam-referrals-blocker https://github.com/MohamedBassem/spam-referrals-blocker I was thinking that may be they are just opening the site with Javascript disabled. But that wouldn't trigger Google Analytics. Can definitely be done on Javascript side too. Thanks for the suggestion. :)
- cpach 5y ago
  Ah, yes, that would be jwz aka Jamie Zawinski.