I am getting so much traffic from this URL, what is this thing?

On my webmaster forum I am getting traffic from this URL

http://i41.tinypic.com/2605rm9.jpg

It is just a jpg image, not any site so how can I get traffic from this URL?

I get 15-20 visitors from this URL daily. Anybody knows what is it??

 

Probably some kind of referrer spam...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer_spam

But why would anyone do referrer spam for that image, unless someone has made a mistake in the bot they use for their referrer spam and is doing it by mistake...?

 

I didn't get that technique

What should I do? Is there any way that I can "Block" this URL so that no more traffic should come?

I am seeing the traffic to my forum has slowed down for the past few days, is it because of this URL thing?

 

Basically, somebody is using a program to send traffic to your website and he's cloaking the referrer by putting the image's link.

There's no way you can block the URL that I know of.

And no, it's not because of the 'URL thing'.

 

Thanks for the URL, I also got a lot of visitors from some wired URLs or ip based URLs.

.SR

 

thanks for the wiki link.

lately i was also getting a lot of sites without ref so i think this will be a good think to know..

 

referrer links are interesting. Keep Researching and what has been said and linked to are good explanations.