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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Topblogstories: Blog-Referring Site?

Lately I notice the sudden increase of traffic to my blog. Checking the stats, I found out that one site is the cause, topblogstories.com. The URL is flattering but one shouldn't really be. Clicking on the link (which is a wrong move as I would learn later on), I found out that the link directs to a porn site! I wouldn't want my personal blog to be associated with such!



So off I did some research on the internet and found out that other bloggers are also complaining of the same problem. I searched on ways on how to solve this problem but it turns out that Google is actually not doing anything. The only helpful information I found on the internet can be found HERE.

The links are harmless, unless clicked. I guess I have to contain my curiosity. 


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17 comments:

  1. astriDUSTMay 26, 2013 at 12:20 AM

    yeah. I found out about it yesterday and unfortunately, I click the link and I shocked till tonight. what did you do?

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    1. The Sweet Melo TouchMay 26, 2013 at 9:02 AM

      Nothing. Have you visited this link (http://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!category-topic/blogger/RrxXxyoSdvU%5B1-25-true%5D)? I have come across this and it says that "Nobody is actually viewing your blog from these sites - and nobody knows about these links but you, since only you can see your Stats logs. There are no actual links to your blog, from these websites - nor is your blog content being downloaded, to anybody's computer. Neither your blog's page rank nor reputation is affected, one way or the other, by referer spam."

      If the above is true, then the best way to do is to ignore the presence of that awful URL in your stats page.

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  2. Sanz YuMay 26, 2013 at 2:59 PM

    Hello there.. :)

    Yes, I have the same problem..
    In the beggining I think it's blog site but when check it's bad.. :(

    By the way I loved your blog.. ~

    Visit my blog too.. Thanks..

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    1. The Sweet Melo TouchMay 26, 2013 at 10:15 PM

      I hope Google acts on the problem soon and find a way to filter dubious referring sites.
      Thanks for your kind words, Sanz Yu. Please feel free to look around. :)

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  3. hannahMay 28, 2013 at 4:52 PM

    I have the same problem, I just noticed today. Hopefully it is true and no readers can spot this.

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  4. KitMay 29, 2013 at 7:21 AM

    I just noticed this same problem on my blog today, unfortunately. I wonder if there's a way a bunch of us bloggers could get together and collectively petition them to do something about it? It wouldn't necessarily do any good, but it might. I just wouldn't know where to start with that.

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    1. The Sweet Melo TouchJune 1, 2013 at 11:41 AM

      I've thought of that, too. But given my connections, it wouldn't do much. So the next best thing is to blog about it and hopefully, raise awareness so that other bloggers won't become victims of this awful joke.

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  5. Sassy LemonadeMay 31, 2013 at 5:54 AM

    I just noticed the samething on my blog. :/

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  6. The Sweet Melo TouchJune 1, 2013 at 11:43 AM

    Just to update people,I noticed that topblogstories is no longer in the list of referring sites. :)

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  7. JackJune 4, 2013 at 11:10 PM

    my blog http://dinamika-hidup.blogspot.com did experience the same thing. It seem to me those 'visitors' dissapeared last week.

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  8. Psychedelicious am IJune 5, 2013 at 1:20 AM

    looks like the topblogstories site has been shut down...I clicked it out of curiosity and led to a server not found page

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  9. AnonymousJune 8, 2013 at 2:49 AM

    thanks for the post about the porn thing;) lol... first i was amazed myself about the "new fans" LOL...
    no I am going to be a "porn-blog-"star"" ;) ahahahah;)*

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  10. UnknownJune 11, 2013 at 10:24 AM

    I noticed a bit of that on my blog, too. Nothing near as bad as you got, though.

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  11. 雪山飛狐June 24, 2013 at 5:52 AM

    Hi there,

    I had the same problem, and I clicked on the link. I guess curiosity killed the cat. :)

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  12. AnonymousApril 2, 2014 at 5:40 PM

    I found my google page clicks suddenly fell. I am always clicking so I must have clicked on a bad link.

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  13. cripple mode coreMarch 8, 2015 at 3:46 AM

    Update:: do not click on topblogstories.com link as you will possibly receive an attempted phish after several redirects( and they are still quite actively hitting blogger sites). They send back a warning message with your ISP listed(I have a screen shot of this) and a phone number to call immediately because you have been hacked (which you haven't unless you call) They somehow used gstatic.com which is a domain owned and used by Google for loading content from their CDN. and emulated any known router used by that ISP to falsly demonstrate how the user has no more control over the router. So they really are not harmless no matter what some people might think.

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