[thelist] Link to my site I can't fathom

Anthony Ettinger apwebdesign at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 22 13:45:14 CDT 2005


Well, you could do it with proxy servers, not that
difficult. But the question is of motivation, what
could they gain by doing that to your site?

You could try:

link:yourdomain.com to find out who links to you.

--- Dominick Cancilla
<dominick.cancilla at buckconsultants.com> wrote:

> On 8/22/05 9:33 AM, "Anthony Ettinger"
> <apwebdesign at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've noticed the same thing. A thread in my forums
> > title "sponge bob hemp pants" is my #1 ranking
> Google
> > search phrase. Hard to imagine.
> > 
> > My guess was somebody automated a script that
> pounded
> > the site with that google referrer, why? I have no
> > idea.
> > 
> 
> I doubt that automatic clicks are at fault in my
> case. My logs show that the
> hits are coming from thousands of unique
> individuals, and to my knowledge
> you can't do this with a script (unless you're a
> spammer using zombie
> machines or something). Also, visitor click paths
> are consistent with real
> human behavior.
> 
> I certainly welcome any corrections to these
> thoughts, however!
> 
> --Dominick
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