Hello everyone, Newbie here. I have a website but recently I found my site has a backlink from a site I never know. When I clicked the backlink it gives me some strange advertisement from Yahoo backlink search. The site is bigfinder . com and I am wondering should I take any action and does it hurt my site? Thanks!
Well by the looks of it, bigfinder is a search engine. I search for your username - which I take it is your website and it went to *your username* [dot] com. Nothing to be worried of, think of it as a new backlink.
They are just trying to get a link from your website traffic statistics pages. They likely don't have an actual link to your website. They are just trying to trick your stats program into giving them a link. If you're worried about it, block your stats pages via the robots.txt file or add password protection to that directory. I have had the same website show up in my own referral logs. It won't hurt your site though.
Thanks you all for instant response. The reason I got worried is when I click one of the backlink it shown on Yahoo backlink actually direct me into a site that I *guess* has sexual content. Since it doesn't hurt, maybe just leave as is. I really appreciate it your help! If you guys are looking for a new car, I would share information with you..lol
My question is why search engines cache these pages? I found more with Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=carpricedatabase.com+site:bigfinder.com&hl=en&filter=0
Lol, this happens all the time, it's a cheap way for sites to get traffic---spam 100,000 sites stats and a few webmasters will spend minutes on the "link" looking for their link. A couple of months ago one of the guys who was running one of these bots was given a hard time on this site.
FHI people that referer spam are not looking to have a few webmasters click there site links. They do this for the purpose of getting there site listed in awstats or webalizer since most websites that use these stat programs have there results public and the search engines can crawl those stat pages. When they crawl 50,000 sites and see 2,000 links to whatever.com in the referer log, it just adds another backlink to the website of whatever.com Very dirty black hat trick that is still used today for the sole purpose of gaining easy backlinks by letting a program run.
Ahhhh!!! I get you. This is what I'd call False-Backlinking ... reason being is because they seem to send a "referral" link to your site from a certain URL, hoping people check their stats and then go and view the site (making them gain one more unique visitor). It's an old trick but one that not many people know / understand - because many people don't know that you can mask your referring URL with simple scripts like ones done with PHP.
My mistake, I thought I was so I would click on 50-100 of them every week. I never knew that my stats could be viewed by the SE-- how can you block them?