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

[Anthony Ettinger]

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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