Strange Site Activity? Advice Wanted!

Spectresoft · 11-09-2011, 06:49 PM

Hey,
So I have one particular site that's about 3 months old, and its ranking top 3 for about 4 or 5 keywords. There is lots of fresh competition (all around the same age as my site lol) but I'm ahead of the pack.
This morning I check my stats as I always do, and I see regular adsense earnings, identical rankings. When I check awstats for traffic I see a 20% increase! Something fishy here so I look to see where it came from.
A few social bookmarks, a few blog comments and article directories....

and a whole mess of poker, casino and porn sites from russia!!!

Wtf?

how did these sites get a direct link to my site on them? I have made every single link to my sites myself, including all the BMR posts and I assure you I certainly didn't put links on a russian porn site lol

So, no extra clicks occurred, but now I'm afraid of google banning me for 'risk of invalid clicks'. What should I do, or am I just paranoid? Is this normal?

Lastly, if you were a russian looking at porn, wtf would you click a link on coffee makers for? That's just bizarre

luvtrees · 11-09-2011, 07:01 PM

You might be talking about referral spam. Those kinds of sites ping your site so that their URL will show up in your stats, causing you to click their link. I have been getting a ton of that recently, lots of Russian sites doing it apparently.

Spectresoft · 11-09-2011, 07:10 PM

Wow that totally makes sense. Thanks!

Jerryl · 11-09-2011, 07:35 PM

probably nothing to worry about, I doubt your competitors are doing anything fishy, but even if they were Googles not stupid, I'm sure they see these things going on.

dofollow · 11-25-2011, 07:32 AM

Your competitor will try to take you down by doing some fishy link building for your site but that kind of thing is transparent and Google will see through it. So you don't have to really worry about it.

11-09-2011, 06:49 PM	#1
Spectresoft Active Warrior Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 52 Thanks: 17 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Strange Site Activity? Advice Wanted! Hey, So I have one particular site that's about 3 months old, and its ranking top 3 for about 4 or 5 keywords. There is lots of fresh competition (all around the same age as my site lol) but I'm ahead of the pack. This morning I check my stats as I always do, and I see regular adsense earnings, identical rankings. When I check awstats for traffic I see a 20% increase! Something fishy here so I look to see where it came from. A few social bookmarks, a few blog comments and article directories.... and a whole mess of poker, casino and porn sites from russia!!! Wtf? how did these sites get a direct link to my site on them? I have made every single link to my sites myself, including all the BMR posts and I assure you I certainly didn't put links on a russian porn site lol So, no extra clicks occurred, but now I'm afraid of google banning me for 'risk of invalid clicks'. What should I do, or am I just paranoid? Is this normal? Lastly, if you were a russian looking at porn, wtf would you click a link on coffee makers for? That's just bizarre

11-09-2011, 07:01 PM	#2
luvtrees Ninja Warrioress War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 127 Thanks: 48 Thanked 13 Times in 13 Posts	Re: Strange Site Activity? Advice Wanted! You might be talking about referral spam. Those kinds of sites ping your site so that their URL will show up in your stats, causing you to click their link. I have been getting a ton of that recently, lots of Russian sites doing it apparently.
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Spectresoft Active Warrior Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 52 Thanks: 17 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Strange Site Activity? Advice Wanted! Wow that totally makes sense. Thanks!

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Jerryl Jerryl Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 87 Thanks: 81 Thanked 11 Times in 11 Posts	Re: Strange Site Activity? Advice Wanted! probably nothing to worry about, I doubt your competitors are doing anything fishy, but even if they were Googles not stupid, I'm sure they see these things going on.
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11-25-2011, 07:32 AM	#5
dofollow Active Warrior Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 55 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Strange Site Activity? Advice Wanted! Your competitor will try to take you down by doing some fishy link building for your site but that kind of thing is transparent and Google will see through it. So you don't have to really worry about it.