I've had a lot of referals from websites which I don't understand. i cannot work out how a visitor could have got to my page from the refering website. the website: www.theafricangreyparrot.com The kind of sites in my referal list: http://www.straight-bananas(.)de http://www.dvbita(.)com/ http://www.vlp-aspan(.)ch/ http://www.strawberry-world(.)net/ http://www.sodeco-new(.)com/ http://www.worldcuplasvegas(.)com (!!) Why on earth are sites like this showing in my Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines)? Fairly sure these pages have never referred a visitor to me! Any suggestions? Thanks Notting
Welcome to referrer log spam. As long as your stats package isn't publicly available you should not worry. PS By giving them live links in this thread, they succeeded in their plans...
I saw some software that did this once. Alexa rank increaser or something of a similar name. Also programs that scrape websites for content can display false referer details.
Webmaster visit the site(s) to see where there links are...which drives up pages views and revenue for the referral spammer. Plus, sometimes people post live links (link love + more visits) to the sites in forums and other places asking how they showed up in their server logs