False Hits?

[Kezza]

On checking my stats I am getting hits from this page:

http://www.terrafirmadesign.net/hitgenie.php

I cant figure out why... or even why they would want to hit me.

I have no top list or banner trades happening... its quite bewildering to me.

[Cleo]

Have you rubbed any magic lamps lately?

[Opti]

www.terrafirmadesign.net/hitgenie.php+&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&strip=1 (http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:gyMvOORsOhQJ:From Google Cache
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Theory 1: They had adsense adverts on that page and you had adwords ads displayed there. (or ads via a similar ad server)

Theory 2: They have a test script soemwhere on their site and someone used your site URL to try it out from their page URL

Theory 3: Someone bought their product and is trying to hitbot something on your site and might have it badly configured (as it seems weird that a hitbotter would declare their URL like that so it shows up in your stats)

Thats my best guesses at minute..

[Bunnyhop]

Could be more clever than that...could be a new idea of "log spamming"....spam the server logs to get webmasters going "wtf is this" and they'll check out the link and see the product....exactly like what happened here =)

If that be the case the sky could start falling....

[Kezza]

I have no idea what to think... but the hits keep coming... not a heap... but a trickle each day.

[Fonz]

I'm getting a couple 100 hits a month from thehun.net to my LL. Don't know how they get from the hun to my LL either :)

[pelcito]

As Opti said, there're a lot of hitbot softwares arround the Internet, i don't know why these programs still exist.

You should be carefull with that!.

Most of them can simulate clicks on your site, they are very difficult to detect because you see a good ratio comming from other site.

[Rocco]

Originally posted by Opti
www.terrafirmadesign.net/hitgenie.php+&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&strip=1 (http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:gyMvOORsOhQJ:From Google Cache


Theory 1: They had adsense adverts on that page and you had adwords ads displayed there. (or ads via a similar ad server)

Theory 2: They have a test script soemwhere on their site and someone used your site URL to try it out from their page URL

Theory 3: Someone bought their product and is trying to hitbot something on your site and might have it badly configured (as it seems weird that a hitbotter would declare their URL like that so it shows up in your stats)

Thats my best guesses at minute..

exactly what i was thinking

[Garou]

We had something like that here.
But it surprises me more when someone sends traffic to Your sponsor using ur account. It happens. Sometimes there are sales even |shake|

[Surfn]

I don't like falsies |pissed|

[Garou]

the thing is that sometimes cheaters grab your template (html) and do not make any changes (lazy? stupid?). Anyways it may be a threat for Your sponsor account. SO You should email Youe sponsor and the owner of the domain who is sending traffic