Strange Referral Traffic Pattern!

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Hey, I have a new blog. Here's the thing: I've been doing some blog commenting and this one site where I left a few comments (no commentluv just my http)--the name isn't important--keeps showing up in my Awstats referrals list.

I mean everyday dozens and dozens of page views from this one site.

I'm a bit confused because this site seems pretty deserted, unimpressive alexa rank and few inbound links. I'm usually the only commenter on any of the posts.

I assume that if these hits were coming from the same url it would show up that way but I don't see a particular pattern like that.

What could this be?

I thought about maybe Digg or Stumbleupon finding me through his site but those sites don't show up in my Awstats referrals.

I'm glad for the traffic but what gives?
#pattern #referral #strange #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author icoachu
    Make sure it's real traffic. Does the traffic hit several pages? Sometimes webmasters turn commenters into traffic by hitting them back with a referrer traffic bot.
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    • Profile picture of the author Cunningham
      Thanks, Icoachu.

      From Awstats it looks like many of these url's do hit more than one page.

      Bots, huh? That's interesting. What other ways might I tell if that's the case. If bots were the problem would the activity show up as coming from a single url or multiple ones?

      In my case, the Awstats host list show url's from various geographic locations but the referring site is always the same.

      Lastly, what would the webmaster's motivation be for doing this?
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