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Strange URLs sending traffic to my blog??

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MummysGotaJob · 11/09/2012 21:53

Hi all

I haven't been blogging for long, and I just noticed that I have some strange URLs in the traffic sources. I clicked on them (hmm, not sure if I should have done this, but I risked it)- and one is a site for meeting up Russian girls, while the other is a video on youtube, both totally unrelated to my cooking/family blog. Plus, I didn't see a link to my blog on these web pages. It is very odd! Could it be some kind of scam? I didn't get any spam comments, so I don't understand it?!?

p.s. my blog is on blogspot (mummysgotajob.blogspot.com), also it seems that all the doggy traffic comes from Russia...

any ideas? Confused

thanks!!

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flubba · 12/09/2012 07:01

I'm no expert, but if they're not leaving comments, and only you can see them in your traffic, then I wouldn't worry and I would just def. not click on them. I always have some very odd ones out there (but not dodgy ones! :o) and I ignore them. I assume they have some automatic thing that clicks on each and every blog out there in the hope of getting traffic to their site the way you have just done?

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Tee2072 · 12/09/2012 07:20

It's a form of robot spamming to get you to click their links back.

Just ignore them.

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flubba · 12/09/2012 07:29

What Tee said (oh so more succinctly than I managed! :o)

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MummysGotaJob · 12/09/2012 08:52

Thank you! that makes sense, I am definitely not clicking on them any more :)

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katese11 · 12/09/2012 09:47

oh thanks! i've been wondering about that too!

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