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Originally posted by fris
black hat as in evil.
explain more in detail.
refer spamming as in
for example lightspeedcash buys content say from adult.com for example you give trusted access to that refer. so people can access lightspeed? are you talking about refer=spoof?
more detail.
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my explanation may be a little off, but referrer spamming is this: many sites, blogs, etc publicly list their referring URLs (the site the surfer was at that led him to the site in question). there are ways to spoof the referrer, through scripts, etc, so that it looks as if your site was the referring URL to hundreds of sites, blogs, etc.
you get tons of traffic from it as you get a hard link on the site, and you'll usually get your PR boosted too from all the backlinks.
i think black hat means something along the lines of frowned upon.