Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who refers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who refers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun   A person who refers another.
Etymologies
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Examples
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								The number one referrer is Techmeme, after that Twitter and Overlawyered. 
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								We traditionally track search referrer growth, search term referrer growth as well as related conversion data. 
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								Try mining your keyword referrer data for transactional terms related to your market. 
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								And now, my site is being hit 15,000 times a day by bullshit spam sites in what is now called referrer spam, which, as far as I can gather, is a way for spammers to get on my "referrer" page on the off-chance that I would ever publish one. 
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								And now, my site is being hit 15,000 times a day by bullshit spam sites in what is now called referrer spam, which, as far as I can gather, is a way for spammers to get on my "referrer" page on the off-chance that I would ever publish one. 
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								TIP: Use your web analytics 'keyword referrer' report to see if you are already getting traffic for a search phrase you want to target. Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com 2010 
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								For the uninitiated, in teh language of teh Web, a referrer is the online resource from whence a visitor happened to arrive at your site. 
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								Publishers may not draw attention to a website displaying Google ads through unwanted traffic from third-party websites, or excessive referrer requests (commonly known as referrer spam). Digital Point Forums 2008 
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								Someone out there apparently used me as Tivo referrer which is wonderful, and I thank you. tivo question yendi 2004 
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								What it means is that for all images, return a ‘forbidden’ message instead of the image unless the referrer is my own domain, or some-other-domain.com, or there’s no referrer at all ie, someone cut n pasted a URL into their browser, or into an email or whatever. attention plz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007 
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