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[marybetht]

I've noticed quite a few hits to a few of my sites from these directories. They all seem related, I'm just wondering who's behind them. Sorry if this has already been asked...here's a few links...

www.car-parts-place.com/

www.forgotten-treasure.com/

www.oldrarethings.com/

Thanks, Mary Beth

Edited by scottiecl, 04 January 2004 - 07:58 PM.

[Scottie]

Hi Mary Beth-

I de-linked those... don't know anything about them at this point but I don't like the look of them! All are interlinked together.

[t49]

There are thousands,if not tens of thousands,of search engines,directories,and portals. Many have their own spiders/robots,and some just use DMOZ listings. If you want to find out who the registered owner(s) is/are,just check 'whois'. Look at your ISPs home page for a link.'Whois' is not a website. It is a piece of software that checks with whatever registrar,it has been programmed to check.
or ... just click here.

Tom

[marybetht]

Scottie,

Sorry for the links, I wasn't sure if I should link or not. Tom, I'll check whois I didn't even think about that.

I'm not complaining about these directories, because I'm getting lots of hits from them, if some of the hits convert to sales, that's great!

Mary Beth

[marybetht]

Naturally they are "private" registrations. No big deal, just wondering who's behind them, they have a bunch of pages from my ecomm site in their database.

MB

[Jill]

Are you sure they're not just log spam? It might look like you're getting hits, because they show up in your logs. Do you actually have a link somewhere on those pages?

Jill

[marybetht]

Jill,

I didn't know there was such a thing as log spam, how's it work?

I do have links on their pages, includes our store name and the name of the product. Each product name has a button next to it that says "more info," click on that button it takes you to the product page. I checked the code and there is an actual hmtl link to our product page.

MB

Edited by marybetht, 04 January 2004 - 09:27 PM.

[Scottie]

Log spam is where an automated program hits your site, making it look like a specific site is sending you traffic.

[marybetht]

Scottie,
What's the purpose of that?

Thanks, MB

[Jill]

To get you to visit their site, for one reason (cuz you want to see if they linked to you), and because many people's logs are online, and they get a link.

Jill

[CGJ]

And don't forget email bots indexing email address from pages,
CGJ

[marybetht]

To get you to visit their site, for one reason (cuz you want to see if they linked to you), and because many people's logs are online, and they get a link.

Ok, thanks for explaining, learned something new.