Since I started my forum, awstats has been showing me that I'm getting referrals from random cigarette shops online. I have never advertised with any of these sites in any way, and don't plan on doing so either, although apparently I'm still getting traffic from them. When I visit them, I see my link nowhere on their website... Is this a mistake? Why is this happening? I'm not complaining about it, I just think it's odd. Thanks.
Are your stats page public? This was a heavily used blackhat method to get backlinks from stats page of websites.
Public? I have no clue. I don't think so... I just check awstats through cPanel which I have to log in to..