Every time you visit a Web page with a browser, your browser sends the Web site the name of the previous Web page that you visited. SEOs often check rankings for Web sites and then click through the SERPs to their own Web sites (or client Web sites). That distorts the stats because it’s not a natural click.
You can disable sending referrers in Firefox with this method:
- Get Firefox.
- Install the Web Developer Toolbar
- Restart Firefox.
On the Web Developer Toolbar, click on Disable and then on Disable Referrers and your browser will no longer send referrers.
Sometimes you will have to turn referrers back on to leave comments in certain blogs, depending on what kind of spam detection software the blogs are running.
Here is a screenshot of how to disable sending referrers on Firefox with the Web Developer Toolbar.
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