Weird Stats- I don't know these referrers!

I was checking the awastats of my directory and referrers of visitors.

Once I put my eyes - I was greatly surprised to see many visitors coming from some unknown sites that I have never heard of -- forget about advertising there.

I checked some of them to find if I got a a link-- and NO

Can anybody help me?

Tnx.

 

referrer spam/log spam

 

Thanks CReed. But will they harm my site and is there anyway I can avoid them?

 

Someone picked you and sent you some huge fake traffic. Some "persons" in "testimonials" if you scroll down that page, I know you are talking about claim: I am earning $600 a day from ppc...Now, is it or isn't it...? I mean a good chance . You'll get an offer for a miracle tool to generate that traffic in mail soon, I guess.

 

Thanks for the answer-- Yes I visited the page and seemed like some weird programme about earning lots of money.

I also visited another site --which is an NGO --PR5 site --very clean. I looked for my link--didn't find it.

This thing started since yesterday only.

My questions remain-- will they hurt my site & how can I stop those fools?

 

Can you see from which IP the traffic is comming? If, not, maybe your web designer will know how to find this and then how to prohibit access to your site from that IP.

 

OK -thanks - I'll try contacting my host and see how can I stop this. Most probably -no-body is facing this problem!

 

Is it possible to find and block IP of the sender? If yes, how? Some script to install?

 

If you're running cPanel, there is a IP deny facility in there

 

Thanks - I'll do that as I don't want unscrupulous people to use my site

 

Will you like to provide more info about the site from where the referrals are coming ??

Today I got around 800+ 404 errors and when I looked deeply, it appears to be a "new" search engine (or something like that) crawling my site. Interesting all of its attempt (90%+) were looking for urls not present there.

 

you can block single ips/ip ranges via .htaccess:

http://www.clockwatchers.com/htaccess_block.html

and you can block whole countries via apache mod_geoip:

http://www.maxmind.com/app/mod_geoip

 

Here is my stat for 1 and half days.
Although the visitors are very marginal in the over-all stat -- I am still concerned. ( all those I have marked are suspicious sites-- and sorry-- certainly not GoGuides-- I have a listing there)

I am really happy with my add on searchenginecolossus -though. Its more than worth as all those traffic seems targetted. Perhaps I am ready to install the referral conversion Mod. should be looking for Freewebspace now.

 

Jhrang - I don't see stats like that on any of my directories, but I see similar results from other websites that I run. Most of the time they are crappy scraper sites :\

I wouldn't worry about it

 

You do not have to contact your host for things like that, just put ip block on those sites, you can do that via .htaccess or via the control panel. Stop bugging hosts about simple issues

 

yup, ip block should do the job, but if it is too persistent and your google ads revenue climb sporadically be prepared to contact google. i don't think i will happen, but just in case one should be prepared for anything, specially dishonest competition.