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zo1
on Sept 9, 2015
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Do you have any insight as to
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those spambots would do that? The only thing I can think of is SEO for the "referral" domain, so that they boost their own domain's ranking.
manigandham
on Sept 9, 2015
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That's mostly why... to get unsuspecting people to visit those referral links wondering where the traffic is coming from.
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