why am i getting "links" or "traffic" from sites like this?

why am i getting "links" or "traffic" from sites like this?

this is a online pharmacy (possibly scam site) , and other is adult
but when i go the site , i cant find link back to my automotive forum site. and they haven't posted spam on my forum..

any ideas ?


thanks

 

Hot linking?

 

i dont know. ..
is that all? hotlinking?
any other ideas anyone?

 

Some people might try to get link back from stats or counter from your site

 

I have the same problem but still did not get any reason behind it.

Kailash

 

I've just discovered the same problem on my site (it was an online pharmacy too).

I'm guessing it's hotlinking.

 

how would i find out who is hotlinking in Cpanel?
besides what would a soccer or automotive site have the an online pharmacy would want to hotlink ?
i dont see any item of intrest to them...

 

Its pretty much as rcj662 says, they do it in the hope that your server logs or some kind of web stats analyser output is stored online. Thus giving them a backlink.

Also some websites automaticly display sites that refer them like a blog trackback.

As long as you dont have your logs online or your web stats online you arent helping them, its just a pain filtering them out.

Jen

 

It's 100% referrer spam. When webmasters see so much "traffic" coming from a page, they check it out. That's how fillbest is generating traffic. They are in my logs as well.

Just make sure your antivirus is updated. I see a lot of referrer spam from sites with IE exploits...

 

Can some one list out what are the traffic driving methods.. and or tools?

 

Has to be hotlinking......

 

Thanks, you all just answered a question i had had as well.

 

It's not hotlinking, it's refferer spam. Everyobdy that checks their logs gets to deal with it.

 

you can download and install a plug-in called as 'Akismet'.
It will block all the spams coming to your site.

 

akismet only stops spam comments from being posted, this will not stop referrer spam.