My *guess* is that a search engine crawler is causing this, as some pages running on the phx2 boxes have a clickable Red Hat logo, and crawlers would easily be able to follow that link.
Also, why is this such an issue? I see no reason why it'd be a problem. I would greatly appreciate if you explained why it's so concerning. Darren VanBuren ============== http://theoks.net/ Sent from my iPod On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:08, Keith Watkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Referral traffic returned to "normal" levels on 24 Sep 2010. Did you > investigate and find anything? Did you do something to stop the referral > traffic? If so, what did you do? Thank you. > > > W. Keith Watkins > Omniture Business Analyst > Red Hat, Inc. > 919-301-3275 > [email protected] > > On 09/23/2010 02:15 PM, Keith Watkins wrote: >> >> Starting on 1 Sep 2010 there was a significant increase in the traffic >> coming from http://fedoraproject.org to http://www.redhat.com and the >> traffic remains elevated (see data below, although the data is for the >> domain-level not the page-level). Further, this traffic is producing >> click-throughs to a few specific links on the redhat.com homepage. One last >> data point, there does not appear to be a pattern to the IP addresses behind >> this traffic (The IPs are fairly evenly distributed across several subnets). >> >> My questions: >> Have you seen an increase in your overall site traffic corresponding to our >> increase in referrals? >> Have you seen a similar increase in exits from your site to our site? >> Does your site have any new links to our site that went live on 1 Sep 2010? >> Do you know of any reason we would see an increase in referral traffic from >> your site? >> Is this legitimate referral traffic or is something else going on? >> >> Thank you and please contact me with additional questions. >> >> >> Instances of fedoraproject.org being a referring domain to the redhat.com >> domain >> >> Date fedoraproject.org >> 08/22/10 129 >> 08/23/10 188 >> 08/24/10 147 >> 08/25/10 230 >> 08/26/10 200 >> 08/27/10 207 >> 08/28/10 125 >> 08/29/10 141 >> 08/30/10 201 >> 08/31/10 181 >> 09/01/10 7,133 >> 09/02/10 14,303 >> 09/03/10 12,878 >> 09/04/10 11,663 >> 09/05/10 12,894 >> 09/06/10 13,973 >> 09/07/10 13,318 >> 09/08/10 8,755 >> 09/09/10 7,142 >> 09/10/10 8,777 >> 09/11/10 10,927 >> 09/12/10 9,985 >> 09/13/10 10,004 >> 09/14/10 9,283 >> 09/15/10 9,675 >> 09/16/10 11,044 >> 09/17/10 9,097 >> 09/18/10 8,889 >> 09/19/10 10,862 >> 09/20/10 9,017 >> 09/21/10 8,116 >> 09/22/10 7,422 >> >> >> >> -- >> W. Keith Watkins >> Business Analyst >> Red Hat, Inc. > > -- > websites mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
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