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Reputation: 83

Easy way to stop referral spam

I am looking for an easy solution for referral spam. I am receiving hits from thousands of referral websites. They are targeting one of the images "tick.gif". Following is the screenshot of the "Visitors" page of cPanel.

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I am blocking the websites via htaccess file with the following code.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite.com [NC,OR]

But the list getting bigger day by day and now it is 2123 number of websites which are blocked by htaccess. Is there any other method to block the sites? I have hosted my website in a VPS with root access.

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