Blocking IPs that have links to your blog

The Referer Stats page provides a list of external web pages that contain links to your blog. From that list, you can select hostnames to block. Visitors originating from web pages that you've blocked will not be able to access your blog.

Note: IP information is not always reliable, and in some cases blocking IPs is not an effective way to prevent linking to your blog. For example, spammers will simply use a different IP, which you haven't blocked. If multiple computers use the same IP, you risk blocking all computers that use that IP, not just the computer that originated the trackback to your blog.

1.	On your Control Panel, click the Dashboard tab.

2.	From the Options list below the Dashboard tab, click the Site Stats link. The Web Stats page opens.

3.	In the Detailed Stats section, click the Referer Summary link. The Referer Stats page opens.

4.	From the Display the referer stats for drop-down list, choose the time period for which you want to see referer data.

5.	Click the checkboxes beside the referers that you want to block.

6.	Click the Block Selected button.