Whitelist hits by referrers -- ignore all other referrers
I would like to set up my referrer ignore list as a whitelist rather than a blacklist. Most of my visitors don't specify a referrer, and most of the rest come from a handful of known sites. Then there's a long tail of a myriad ever-changing spam referrers.
So whitelisting the good ones (including no referrer) would be much more convenient than blacklisting the bad ones. However, that would also require that WLE output a list of all views that were deleted because they were not whitelisted since a new good referrer might pop up. If that could be implemented I'd be grateful!
So whitelisting the good ones (including no referrer) would be much more convenient than blacklisting the bad ones. However, that would also require that WLE output a list of all views that were deleted because they were not whitelisted since a new good referrer might pop up. If that could be implemented I'd be grateful!
A whitelist would clean this up quickly and completely. I'd miss some legitimate views, sure, but most of the <10 hit referrers are spam. The number of removed spam views would far exceed the number of missed legitimate views.