Hello everyone, I have two questions: 1) On awstats list, I see a blog linking to my site and I see some visitors are coming from that blog. What I don't understand is, when I go to that blog, I don't see any link to my site, that blog is totally unrelated to my site and my site is English. This blog is in Russian. I put this blog into google translate and it is 100% non-related to my site and there is absolutely NO link at all visible in any posts that contain a link to my site. Yet, awstats show some visitors are coming to my site from that blog. Any ideas how and why? 2) I have two different sites and they are related in terms of topics but they are in different languages. They are on the same host. Is it bad for my serp if I give link to each of my sites?
Hi, If your sites are in different language means, you host in that related location means its very useful to you.
i am not expert in awstats, but it happen to me too so i tought that link is coming from the ads or adsense on that page. did you adertise on google or other advertisers ?
@bluebenz: Thanks but I didn't advertise anywhere and this blog doesn't have any advertisement at all. It is confusing. @Chan Sorry, I don't understand what you mean?
Your first question is very good and very complex. I cannot elaborate on that. Maybe its a bug or maybe..... Well as for the second question, interesting as well, are your sites exactly identical? DO they have different content or the same? If they are different though related, do not interlink them from one to another. However, you can get other sites to link to both of them at the same time. There is no harm in that. Search Engine would almost never return search results from both the pages simultaneously for a search query. So probably it would never give rise to any issue.
Number one is what you called referrer spam using prstorm or something like that. The target is people who look at their logs and the spammers get their visitors that way. It used to be big some 5 years ago. Did not know people are still using them. As for number two, if its only two sites and they're related, don't think too much of it, you can interlink it as long as its not excessive
This is why you should block search engine spiders from your awstats pages. Spammers fake sending you traffic just to get a link from those pages. It can be a bit dangerous since you can end up linking to some very shady websites.