Saturday, November 7, 2015

False Traffic Sources

When I look at the Blogger statistics page for this site, I see a lot of traffic (i.e. referring URLs) from web pages that don't contain any links to my site. One of the two major "sources" is a shady-sounding web site and the other is an app page on Google Play.

My guess is that the owners of those pages are trying to drive traffic there by requesting lots of pages from my site and specifying a fake Referer [sic] URL. Maybe they're hoping I'll see it in the top traffic sources list, click it, and be interested? Seems like a lot of work for just a few potential converts.

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