Stealing Traffic

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by creepah, Dec 21, 2005.

  1. #1
    I own this site proxyindex . com


    and this site is stealing alot of my traffic - http://www.freeproxysurfing.com


    if you goto there homepage and view source you see this

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    <tr>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
    <form name="poxy_url_form" method="get" action="http://www.proxyindex.com/index.php">
    <input type="hidden" name="q" value="" id="url_input" />
    <input type="hidden" name="hl" value="" />
    </form>
    ------------


    So as you can see they are linking to my site and causing me huge bandwith problems.


    How can i fix this?
     
    creepah, Dec 21, 2005 IP
  2. ServerUnion

    ServerUnion Peon

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    #2
    you could maybe ban them as a referrer. Not sure the specifics.

    Do you have anyway of making money from this traffic?
     
    ServerUnion, Dec 21, 2005 IP
  3. sixty6

    sixty6 Well-Known Member

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    #3
    This actually is hilarious. Are they creating a form and sending it to your site? And blocking them as a referrer doesn't do anything. If you want, change your index.php to index and this will cause an error with their form I guess.
     
    sixty6, Dec 21, 2005 IP
  4. creepah

    creepah Peon

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    how do i block them as a referrer?

    this is costing me alot of bw :(
     
    creepah, Dec 22, 2005 IP
  5. sixty6

    sixty6 Well-Known Member

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    You still haven't answered my question and I can help you. Just tell me what exactly they are doing.
     
    sixty6, Dec 22, 2005 IP
  6. Blue

    Blue Peon

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    If you have mod_rewrite installed, try this .htaccess file.

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /
    
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*freeproxysurfing\.com [NC,OR]
    rewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]
    Code (markup):
    This will block all referrals from that site.
     
    Blue, Dec 23, 2005 IP
  7. TooShort4

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    Sue them / contact their host rofl.
     
    TooShort4, Dec 23, 2005 IP
  8. creepah

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    thanks for the tip mate karma to u ;)
     
    creepah, Dec 23, 2005 IP