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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?

Tee2072 · 12/09/2012 07:20

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

Just ignore them.

flubba · 12/09/2012 07:29

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

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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