Bad Links Coming Into My Site.

I was looking through my logs today and saw the following links.

article.www. SSS .info/health/r/index.html

Now SSS is just a generic name but where SSS is there were hundreds of different domain names. All the content was the same and perscription drug related.
Now when I remove the article and the rest of the url and go directly to the domain it it goes directly to a porn site.

www. SSS .info

They are all .info sites and abbout for several hundred hits tom my site. My site has none of that type of content on it.

What can I do or what should I do?

 

I don't think that it will do harm to you unless you place link to them...

 

I don't think bad/unrelated content pointing to my site is good at all. I would like to block it if at all possible.
My site is PR4 and I have no idea what adavantage they would have doing this.

 

It's probably referrer spam.

 

I wouldn't worry about it, i sometimes see this stuff. You can't control links you get to your site, just start worrying when you are linking to 'bad' sites

 

It is referal spam. Is there a solution to block this by IP or .htacces file. Ok even if it does not hurt I don't like giving away free bandwidth and from what I see starting next month at this rate it could cause a problem. The sites has hundreds of hits to my log in the last day and the subdomains all begin with article. Each site has its own unique nave and end with .info Is there a way to block all?

 

Ok after chatting with my hosting company they told me to use the deny command in my .htaccess file for the referral spam issue.

deny from 000.000.000.000

000.000.000.000 is the IP that you want to block and can be determined from a dns lookup.

If there is a better solution I would like to know.

 

How much bandwidth are they actually taking up. You could just throw on some adsense and make the money back with the uniques viewing your page. Be careful about blocking the IP too, you don't want to block out legimate viewers.

 

I'm getting some spam too from a manual surf program that i didn't participate at (never did) and i sent an e-mail to the site admin 2 days ago and nothing changed

traffic is still coming from there

what else to do ?

 

I am not too concerned about bloking a few legits. i just want the bad linking sites to mine to stop!

 

There is no point if it is stats spam. You won't make a dime. How this works is the sites that are spamming your stats and thousands of other peoples stats on the web is by using some sort of robot so that it can make out that it looks like a real visitor has gone to your site when they have not. You then check their site to see where you site is located as they have sent you some good traffic and you can't find your site, but even though you can't find your site on theirs, they have still got whated they wanted to achieve and that is by you going to their site, which equals a visitor to them.

I get it happening myself and because of this whenever I check sites that I get traffic from now in my stats, I never directly click on the urls. I just copy and paste the url in the browser and then go to the site. The reasons for this is because there will be no referral within their stats saying that people have gone to their site from mine and hopefully they will then see that spamming my site will not give them any traffic, well that's what they will think anyway.

 

Well if I could see a way to monitize this I would.
I just see the links in my log. The good news is that by adding the Deny and IP into the .htaccess folder I can see that the traffic from those sites is gone. I probably stopped about 90% just looking at my stats during that last day.
I will probably have to block a couple more from looking deeper but the bulk of it has been stopped.

 

well,you can put popups in the page where they spam.

 

If it's referral / stats spam then read my post and you will find out that it will not earn you a penny.

I had a previous problem, it was not stats spam although I have had that many times and still have it infact. The major problem was a few sites using up about 1gb's of bandwidth a day. The thing they were doing was scraping all of my content and using it on their sites. I banned their IP straight away. Why would I want people to scrap all my content just to make duplicate content on their sites and also use all of my bandwidth.

 

I just found another interesting link in my logs with multiple mass traffic hits in my stats. When I click through from my log record it goes to a link page that shows my domain at the top of the list.
When I cut the url from my log file and put it in a browser it goes to what appears to be the same link page but does not show my url at the top of the link page. Its not even on the link page.
On the page it shows links to wikipedia yahoo and a few other companies.

My site is PR and most of the sites have some PR on that list.