Lots of hits from foreign site?

strange unexplanied hits on my site

[tomhumf]

Hi,

I've got about 900 hits (0 page views) from one site, and 100 hits (0 page views) from another this month. They're from a site called iskrica dot com. If I click on the refering link it's all in a foreign language, and there is no sign of the link to my site. It just says

"Nastao je problem
Zahtjevana tema nije nađena."

Which i guess means the page can't be loaded or something. I've never been on these sites and certainly haven't submitted links to them. Does anyone know what might be the cause of this?

Thanks

Tom

[The Contractor]

Do you use an .htaccess file? You can block the referrer or ip range if you do.

[tomhumf]

Thanks for your reply. I've found a few sources that give the same htaccess code for blocking the domains. They all seem to require mod_rewrite to be enabled. Is this the only way of doing it? If so does that mean I have to ask the hosting company if it's turned on?

[cgrantski]

For what it's worth, which may not be much, this is really common and possibly not worth expending energy on. Small sites whose logs I look at closely have several of these a day .... visits (with or without requests for page files) that come from sites that have no links to the sites I'm watching. Some of it is log spam (trying to get you to go to their site) and some is other kinds of black hat stuff. It will probably always be there. You can block IPs and more will pop up because they tend to switch IPs. The cost of bandwidth to you is negligible. It is certainly a good learning experience to dig into it but that's about it. I have been doing web sites for many years, small and gigantic alike, and this happens. Just make sure your server is properly buttoned up and consider this the noise of living in a crazy online world.

As I said, it's just my opinion about having better things to do than swat flies.

If you want to get a better idea of that other crazy world, do a search on black hat SEO some time and read what they have to say.

[tomhumf]

Thanks for that comment I agree with you. I found an IP Deny Manager in cpanel which I guess does the same kind of thing so have added the domains to that.

I didn't want to spend a lot of time on it, but the hits were getting to hundreds a day so thought it was worth trying to stop.