Please advise me about my huge referrer

[makeit easy]

Hi,

I need for your advise about my huge referrer http:// profile.myspace.com / index.cfm?fuseaction= user.viewprofile&friendid=xxxxxx

xxxx changes but it makes about 1,000 visits a day.

Please tell me what kind of referrer it is. Because I see many visitors from there at my site stats but I can't see none of those visitors at my google analytics, adsense and other stats. I think those visitors are not real.
How they visit and behave? Thanks for your infos.

[danzor]

It might be someone on myspace hotlinking images on your site for use in their profile. Also could be mp3s, videos etc.

[shoaeeb]

Have u participated in any link exchange program or purchased any kind of third paty traffic from any traffic firm?

[ven123]

whats your site about?

[mcfox]

It's a link to something on your site from myspace profiles. If you don't want it to happen, block myspace using htaccess.

[makeit easy]

It might be someone on myspace hotlinking images on your site for use in their profile. Also could be mp3s, videos etc.

Can you explain more please? As I know when someone visits I should track them by google analytics. Do images, mp3s and videos behave diferrent in the visitor tracking point of view? I think your answer is most relative to my question.

[makeit easy]

whats your site about?

It's for children with some cartoon images :)

shoaeeb : No
mcfox: I can't define the traffic is whether profitable or not. But as I see up to now, it's not profitable. Because the visitors didn't visit the web pages exactly. I don't unsdertand what they visit. May be they only see images without coming the site :) If this is true, I can block the traffic because of unnnecessary bandwidth usage.

[mcfox]

Can you explain more please? As I know when someone visits I should track them by google analytics. Do images, mp3s and videos behave diferrent in the visitor tracking point of view? I think your answer is most relative to my question.
Someone has visited your site, liked one of the images (or mp3s) and copied the code to display (or play) it directly -

http://www.answersingenesis.org/AfterEden/cartoons/aftereden_cartoon.gif

e.g. Quick search on Google for cartoons gives me the above and this one seemed appropriate for the time of year. - It's now a hotlinked image.

That's what has happened with your site - someone has decided to hotlink (http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html) to an image. The traffic is pulled directly from your site therefore no-one actually visits your site for it so it won't show up in Analytics.

If you want to know which image it is, check your webstats and look to see which images are being called the most times - find an approximation close to the number of hotlinks and you should be able to figure out which image it is.

To prevent it from happening you can either use .htaccess to prevent hotlinking (http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html) or if you have cpanel, you can use that instead.

[makeit easy]

Thanks for the info. I will give you rep.


Someone has visited your site, liked one of the images (or mp3s) and copied the code to display (or play) it directly -

http://www.answersingenesis.org/AfterEden/cartoons/aftereden_cartoon.gif

e.g. Quick search on Google for cartoons gives me the above and this one seemed appropriate for the time of year. - It's now a hotlinked image.

That's what has happened with your site - someone has decided to hotlink (http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html) to an image. The traffic is pulled directly from your site therefore no-one actually visits your site for it so it won't show up in Analytics.

If you want to know which image it is, check your webstats and look to see which images are being called the most times - find an approximation close to the number of hotlinks and you should be able to figure out which image it is.

To prevent it from happening you can either use .htaccess to prevent hotlinking (http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html) or if you have cpanel, you can use that instead.