Fakezilla?

[Teshka]

Had a couple referrals come from pages from this domain, all with long spammy file names like:

http://www.fakezilla.com/pagerank links-generate-unlimited-anonymous-fake-hits-to-any-site_fake_hits_unique_traffic_generator.htm

Reading their page makes me a little nervous--I don't want fake whazzits clicking any of my ads or anything. I sure haven't signed up for their, uhm, service, nor do they have links to my site.

Why the visits? Should I be concerned?

[moishe]

well since they claim on their site that the fake traffic will look unique, I would say, IMHO, that this is just log spamming.

Maybe one of our more knowledgable members can disect the thing and see if there is a way to block it being used on our websites.

[keywordguru]

It looks scary to me.

Think of it this way, not only will they use this to click your ads within Google's network on google.com, they can also use it to ping TONS of their own pages to boost Ad sense.

Then you even have those spammy little search engines that are taking cuts from smaller ppc's like kanoodle, searchfeed,etc.
I am sure 90% of those hits are actually automated. There is no way those small networks bring that many clicks while turning hard conversions.

Just some ideas.

[coyote]

One way to block this in htaccess would be to block by referer:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?fakezilla.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F]

Though it could start using other domains or no referer at all.

[Teshka]

Thanks Coyote (and others who responded). They haven't been back since my original post, but I may add that snippet anyway.