[Coin-discuss] Site stats

[Matthew Saltzman]

Mirko-

Thanks for noticing and bringing this to our attention.  I've deleted
the spam links and I'll be looking into alternatives to discourage
spammers in the future.

On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 18:10 +0100, Mirko Maischberger wrote:
> Hello all,
> I don't know if this is the right mailing list for issues relating the web
> site, please feel free to address me to another mailing list if you think
> the discussion will be more appropriate somewhere else.
> 
> The problem is that by clicking on the "access statistics" link on the
> coin-or home page and going at the "Links from an external page" section
> there are many links that looks like spam.
> 
> This is probably done by a bot. The worst thing is that this kind of links
> tend to drop the page rank of a web site.
> 
> One way to address this problem can be to protect the access statistics page
> with a simple password (that can also be public, so that is simply inhibits
> search engines). Another way could be to replace the awstats software with
> something else (or to modify it so that the external links are text only and
> not active).
> 
> Cheers,
> Mirko
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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