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Why are random sites linking to my site? What is their purpose?


In the "links from an external site" portion of my website statistics I see many sites that shouldn't have a reason to link to my site. Is there a reason for them doing this? Are they related in some way to spam/bots?

For example, the sites supposedly linking to mine are sites like:


Solution

  • You might simply the victim of so called “Referral Spam” (fake referrer for various dirty online marketing reasons). For a first overview you could read this Wikipedia entry or learn how to fight against it here in Stackoverflow.