strange stats

[Graham L]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 02:35:01 +0100, Spares Or Repair
<s...@sparesorrepair.co.uk.INVALID> wrote:

>Top 30 of 187 Total Referrers
>
># Hits Referrer
>
><snip>
>
>18 72 0.80% http://www.top-penis-enlargement.com/

>
>The above is referrer stats for a cannabis website I have .
>
>I noticed this url last month with about 350 hits in the referrer stats &
>couldnt see anything that links it to my cannabis website .
>
>This months stats shows the same url with 18 hits so far , I looked at
>the website again - and again theres nothing that links to my cannabis
>website as far as I can see .
>
>Any sherlocks on here ? .

Not too sure but you may be being getting Log Spamming. By spoofing
the referrer, their site starts to show in your logs, it gets your
interest and you visit their site. Probably more effective than email
spamming !!

Graham

[Robert Taylor]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 08:38:01 +0100, Graham L
<gra...@westfield-design.co.uk> wrote:

>Not too sure but you may be being getting Log Spamming. By spoofing
>the referrer, their site starts to show in your logs, it gets your
>interest and you visit their site. Probably more effective than email
>spamming !!

...and along those lines the thinking is apparently that alot of
webstats stuff is unprotected and gobbled up by search engine
crawlers, so extra links boost pagerank.

Either way its dodgy :)

Regards,
Robert Taylor.
Studio 51 Internet Solutions
[w = http://www.studio-51.net ]

[Redcat]

"Graham L" <gra...@westfield-design.co.uk> wrote in message
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I've seen the same with some cheap hosting company - hostitcheap.com? -
which I think is probably more dangerous as they're obviosly trying to steal
business.