In my meeting with Kim from Blogware she told me about a new type of spam which at the moment blogware are calling referral spam. Basically this is where spammers link to your website in the hope that when you check out your referral stats you will click on the link to see who they are.
Until Kim explained to me what was going on I have admit that I was falling for this tactic as I was trying to work for instance why 120 people from petsellers.net were clicking through to my blog!
Seems like a pretty dumb spamming tactic to me as it is totally untargetted and is hitting such a small niche of users. I guess people will do anything to make money.
