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I have a fan site for a non-controversial movie actor. All has been well with it until this month.
I looked at my webstats and discovered that the most popular words used in searches that turned up at my website most often were terms you would normally use to find porn sites.
I checked the access logs and discovered I was being bombarded with entries that look like this:
[Fri May 27 19:51:13 2005] [error] [client 66.32.187.11] File does not exist: PICTUREONMYSITE, referer: [images.google.com...]
I have substituted identifying words in capital letters above, but I think you can understand what I substituted.
I removed the (non-porn) picture they seemed to be keying on. Now the entries are showing in my error log.
These searches are coming at all times of the night and day, and the ip is different with every single one of them.
What is going on here? Is there anything I can do about it? I don't want my site mistaken for a porn site.
Thank you.
AKat
Yes, this is a good page to ask that question on.
This sort of tactic can sometimes reap rewards when you keep your logs in a public part of your website, since Google will index such entries. The instigator can then sometimes get a valuable entry on the basis, perhaps, of your own high Page Rank
(Try a few Google searches and you'll find a lot of people store their logs publicly).
Unless you're being spammed heavily by this, let it drop, as it's just an opporunistic try. If your logs are private, it achieves zero.
I've had referrer spam, where someone has come to my page but made it look like they've arrived via Google searching for a p*rn term...
Its a nuisance, but like graffiti, its a sad fact of life.
Make sure your logs are private and then (if you have a site like mine) enjoy the number of people who visit my site with searches that ARE on my site, but I'm not the site they want. If you see what I mean!
DerekH
My stats/logs etc. are not public and cannot even be gotten to from the web. Also the entries in my access log don't have a referrer except for google images. They don't seem to be getting any free publicity at all because I don't know where they are coming from.
I have had some problems with Bulletin Board spammers in the past. My board is in PERL and after a bit of investigating the access logs, I figured out a common feature that I enabled me to block them from my .pl script. The board spammers haven't gotten one past my checks in several months though they keep trying. I was thinking it might be them who are trying to do this.
I'm not particularly familiar with google procedures and web standings. I don't sell anything and have no advertising whatsoever on my site, so they are both of little consequence to me. I was mainly afraid that all this activity might start labeling my site as a porn site and attract the wrong people to it. If it won't do that though, I won't worry about it.
Thanks for the reassurance.
AKat
