Ugh, I was working at 100 Mph this morning and just completely forgot how to do that. Thanks.

I went into my Google+ profile this morning to try to add a new guest blog in the 'Contributor To' section but I can't find it. Did they move it somewhere?

Thanks! That was easy.

Right now my crawl diagnostic information is being skewed because it's including the onsite search from my website. Is there a way to remove certain pages like search from the errors and warnings of the crawl diagnostic? My search pages are coming up as:

• Long URL
• Title Element Too Long
• Missing Meta Description
• Blocked by meta-robots (Which is how I want it)
• Rel Canonical

Here is what the crawl diagnostic thinks my page URL looks like:

website.com/search/gutter%25252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525

252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252

525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525

252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252

52525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252Bcleaning/

Thank you,

Jonathan

A recent review of all client and personal websites showed a strange correlation. Traffic was coming in from Pelotas Brazil. The real clue was that some of my personal sites shouldn't see any traffic at all. So when I started getting traffic from Brazil I did some further research. It turns out Google is well aware of these events as seen in this forum post.

Referral spam - one week online and www.web.com is using my google site

Further reading lead me to this article:

Stop Google Analytics Referrer Spam

My question is: Why? Since the articles state referrer spam doesn't negatively affect search engine ranking then why bother in the first place? How is this spammer gaining anything by doing this?

After reading both the Google Support Forum and the related article I'm still scratching my head trying to understand the method for this madness.