What the...?

[Ricksta]

Look at some of the referrers of my website in the Webstats of this month: http://ricksta.net/webstats/usage_200210.html

Adult sites?!

[Laurey]

odd...

maybe your URL is similar to a naughty site? Sorry.. but I have no interest seeing if you are actually linked on those pages... <G>

[Ricksta]

My site is completely different from those though. Check it out. Plus, the adult links are unreachable... I'm stumped.

[Laurey]

Oh.. I've checked out your site before, and know it's not adult content. I don't understand it myself.. and I know I'd be a little freaked by it if it were me... on the other hand.. any traffic is good traffic.. long as they don't deface my boards...

[Atomic-Design]

Never knew the trillions of porn sites could generate traffic for someone not affiliated.

[Ricksta]

Oh, I'm freaked, all right, Laurey (lol). I know, Atomic!

[TERRELL]

BWAAAAAHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.LMAO :D

[muijefr]

none of the links that I tried are actually sites or valid links - strange

[Ricksta]

Yeah, yeah, Terrell, laugh all you want, lol. Indeed, the "adult" links are neither reachable nor valid. Someone probably is fooling around with my website statistics. Is there anything I could do about this?

[Atomic-Design]

Why would somebody be motivated to do that?

[Ricksta]

I wish I knew, and if I did I wouldn't be here (lol).

[davros]

Well if you tried all those links Ricky your a better man that I am! LOL Those porn sites are dangerous.. I've run into a few by accidental typos in a domain name that cause about 400 windows to open and a new one opens everytime you close one.. Pretty nasty.. Some even cause a browswer crash.. Now I'm a little more carefull on spelling of the domains I visit.. But those animals find a new way all the time to get you wheather you try to avoid them or not..

[Ricksta]

Good tip, Randall. I just tried a couple of those links and it occurred to me that all of them were fakes. I wonder why anyone would want to hack into my statistics though. I also wonder if it is possible for PowWeb to get to the bottom of this? I mean pornography and a website based on the appreciation and celebration of life, certainly don't mix, lol.

[zeroseven]

OMG!

And sure it may seem a little funny, but porn traffic has to probably be the most useless traffic available. (to a regular website!) ... besides "warez" traffic.... that has to be the ABSOLUTE worst traffic :D

Anyways, this leads me to my point... if those are REAL hits, they're sucking up yer bandwidth.... precious, sweet sweet bandwidth... mmmmm... bandwidth... *drool*

Haha, I actually have a website that gets a pile of hits from warez (piracy) sites... I guess the normal sounding domain used to be one... haha, I just send the "warez" traffic to some Affiliate link, lol! I make a few bucks off of their inconvenience of getting a website filled with ads and popups, lol ;)

Yah gotta do what yah gotta do :p