Innerlab wrote: > I have this website that's purely related with spirituality. > Now, I found that in the last couple of days (I just checked the last > two days' logs) > there's a substantial number of hits in which the referrer(s) are > websites related with > get rich schemes and pharmaceuticals. The referrers are related to an > affiliate > that uses the same username in all of those sites. > > I assume that because those domains come up as referrers someone must > have clicked > links to my site on those domains. Is that correct? > > If that is true, then one would expect different IP addresses as the > visitor's IPs on those log entries. > But is the same IP address. Meaning (I guess) that the same person > with identical originating IP is > going to all those sites and from there clicking a link that leads to > my site. > > Also, the number of hits from the different referrer sites are > IDENTICAL, which leads me to think > that there is some kind of robot involved. > > I can't figure this out. I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions. > I really don't like being linked from those suspicious sites, which > are probably involved in spamming.
Do you publish your Log file analysis? it sounds like someone is trying to "poison" your Referrer report by creating spoofed referrers. If you publish an Analog report for your site, these spoofed referrers will show up as links to these scam sites. This will increase the score for those sites in some search engines (because the more links to a site, the more "useful" the information it provides is assumed to be). It's just an attempt to scam search engines that might potentially find links back to these spoofed referrers if you happen to post log analysis reports for your site. Aengus +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
