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garyd
09-15-2005, 08:19 AM
In the last couple days I've seen that 25% of my referals have come from an "adult" site. I'm not super excited about this (just don't want the connection).

Even worse would be if a client would search for my site and somehow find something from that site (not sure that could happen but reputation is about 95% of our business).

Is there a way that I could go about finding how these referals are occuring. (all I use currently is the stats in the CNC).

Thanks for any help -- garyd

ps. for some reason I have a feeling that a "friend" could have posted a "personal" on the site thinking they were funning and included my site info? But I'm sure they would have called me to tell me how funny they are by now?

kitchin
09-15-2005, 01:00 PM
Are your stats password protected? That's always a good idea. Anyway, this could be "referrer spam." See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referrer_spam

garyd
09-15-2005, 02:26 PM
I think I have my stats password protected? Can someone tell me how this is done through the CNC? (I have an htcaccess file in the main directory of the CNC)

garyd

Bob
09-15-2005, 02:28 PM
This Knowledgebase Article specifically covers password protecting your stats:
http://Service.FutureQuest.net/index.php?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=186

-Bob

garyd
09-15-2005, 02:54 PM
Thanks Bob. As usual the informations was helpful and needed. Garyd