How To Block Referrer...

[boxturt]

I figured I would pose the question while I search

 

I've one html file that's receiving an incredible amount of traffic - referred directly from Yahoo search results. Is there a way to ban this for my one file? Seems to me there is a way but I would be merely guessing if I tried to do it from my limited knowledge.

 

Thanks

 

-,^^,0

[TCH-Rob]

Try adding this to your .htaccess file;

 

>RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://yahoo.com [NC,OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.yahoo.com [NC,OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://search.yahoo.com [NC] 
RewriteRule /* [URL=http://www.google.com/]http://www.google.com/[/URL] [R,L]

 

This will not work for one file but from anything coming from Yahoo or their search service unless you had that file in a folder of it's own and this .htaccess was in that folder too.

 

I will see if I can find something more specific.

 

BTW, this will send them to google.

[boxturt]

Has possiblities....... thanks. I can't really find anything.

 

Right now I have renamed the file and put up a page with a manual redirect in it's place. I am pretty sure people are getting to this page expecting something else.

 

Do a Yahoo search for ' mr skin ' and you'll see what I mean.

 

Mine is the song by Spirit, #2 listing. The #1 listing must have recently added some new um, "material". Yuck!