Strange visit

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[nervo]

Hi all,

Today I noticed a strange click from www.google.com/ in my eXtreme web log stats... How is that possible? I mean, google surely does not link with me from their root page ...

Any thoughts?

Thanks & Happy Holidays

[Brett_Tabke]

Study the art of referral log reading. You will see many more strange referrals. (remember, we are mostly using microsoft products ;-)

[MS_Excel]

nervo, could be that somebody simply typed in your domain (to the address bar) while on the Google home page.

[sem4u]

I mean, google surely does not link with me from their root page...

I wish they would ;)

[nervo]

Mhhm..
MS_Excel - that is not the case, i tried it..

Yeah, imagine your link shining from Google's home page :)
Funny..

[MS_Excel]

MS_Excel - that is not the case, i tried it..

I'm interested to know how the hit was recorded?

[rfgdxm1]

>I'm interested to know how the hit was recorded?

My first guess is someone has set up their software to always send a (fake) referrer of www.google.com.

[IITian]

I too got one about 2 weeks ago. I just thought that Google paid me a visit. Wrong, perhaps. :)

[BigDave]

As Brett hinted at, different products will generate referrers using different methods. Just because it did not wotk with your browser doesn't mean that it doesn't work with a browser running on a Commodore 64.

And do any of you really want to pay the bandwidth bill from having a link on Google's home page? Talk about getting slashdotted!

[IITian]

And do any of you really want to pay the bandwidth bill from having a link on Google's home page? Talk about getting slashdotted!

A few minutes ago I put an url of mine on a Yahoo message board corresponding to a message linked from its home page. The link vanished in a few minutes but not before my site was hit by an avalanche of visitors (by my standards).

Still my answer would be yes, I do want a link from Google's home page, provided it is in invisible text and the PR transfer is counted. ;)

[Chico_Loco]

I think you're over estimating the value of a link of the Google homepage..

200 million searches daily through them and their affiliates.. let's say 100 million uniques to the Google homepage daily (?).. no more than about 15% would click on a link there I don't think .. That makes 15,000,000 hit's a day... let's say the web page loaded would be 10k, then that makes 150 gigs (if I'm not mistaken)... Most didicated servers these days come with about 300 - 500 gigs transfer a month.. so you probably wouldn't even go over your limit :)

Now, even if I did get 15 mil hit's a day, i'm almost certain that they would convert well enough such that it would cover the bandwidth bill (at lets say $3/gig)..

God.... would be bloody nice though wouldn't it :):):):)

[gaouzief]

It could be that someone typed your URL in the google toolbar and got redirected to your website.

That's how it works but i didn't know it sent a Referer header of google.com

[nervo]

>>>It could be that someone typed your URL in the google toolbar and got redirected to your website.
That's how it works but i didn't know it sent a Referer header of google.com <<<

It doesn't send such referer that way..

>>>> Now, even if I did get 15 mil hit's a day, i'm almost certain that they would convert well enough such that it would cover the bandwidth bill (at lets say $3/gig)..

God.... would be bloody nice though wouldn't it :):):):)<<<

Yeah, I am ready to swap link with Google :) lol
Furthermore, I would link them twice + display banner for free. And one year free mail list subscription.
And kisses :) lots of...