Odd traffic sources in my stats reports every day, possible fraud or traffic theft?
Regarding one of my websites which every day gets lots of suspect traffic, and I have no idea why the traffic arrives from these 3 major traffic sources. When I look at both my AWstats and Weblizer stats I see these in my logs consistently:
cronjob.de - about 3000 visits (listed under both Hosts & Links)
localhost - about 7000 visits (listed only under Hosts, not Links)
jlussi.de about 4000 visits (listed under both Hosts & Links)
I went to CronJob.DE and its a German language site so not sure what the site is about or its service, anyone know? I tried translating it using Alta Vista Babelfish but the translation fails for some odd reason. Also never heard of cronjob.de website before and not even sure what localhost is?
Also visited JLussi.DE and it looks like a small German women's beauty products store, which I never heard of before. No, we do not have link arrangements between my sites and jlussi (or cronjob.de) and if we did that much traffic from them would be hard to believe anyway (my site is an old image storage free host site and not related to a German Cronjob or womens beauty site).
I am wondering if there is a connection between cronjobs.de and jlussi.de since they are both in Germany and both by far the 2 top URL's in my logs? We have no connection to Germany and never heard of either url or read German, and both sites are in German language, so it is real odd. In addition, noticed CronJobs.de and Jlussi.de both use large amounts of my server Bandwidth, which also seems quite odd.
Somewhat concerned there is some kind of fraud or possibly traffic theft going on here as there is no reason for all this traffic coming from these 2 obscure to me websites. Not sure if this is relevant but about the time I noticed this issue I hired a web hosting website owner in Europe (but not in Germany) to do some work on my site and I am a bit suspect he did something to cause this, especially since before he worked on it the site was getting 5 to 10 times the visits it gets vs after he was done with his work. It still get good traffic but 5 to 10 times less unique visitors than before.
It's almost like my traffic was somehow stolen overnight and I feel these sites in my stats may be a key to understand this. As a matter of fact I hired that hosting expert (who I met at a forum board) to do some work on trying to better use my good traffic (to earn more $ from my affiliate link) and also filter out the loads of free image storage low value sub-domain traffic.
Can someone please guess as to what may be going on here and why my website gets thousands of hits every day from these 3 strange referrer log sources? I have not seen these in my stats from my other sites, only for this site. Thanks.
Regarding one of my websites which every day gets lots of suspect traffic, and I have no idea why the traffic arrives from these 3 major traffic sources. When I look at both my AWstats and Weblizer stats I see these in my logs consistently:
cronjob.de - about 3000 visits (listed under both Hosts & Links)
localhost - about 7000 visits (listed only under Hosts, not Links)
jlussi.de about 4000 visits (listed under both Hosts & Links)
I went to CronJob.DE and its a German language site so not sure what the site is about or its service, anyone know? I tried translating it using Alta Vista Babelfish but the translation fails for some odd reason. Also never heard of cronjob.de website before and not even sure what localhost is?
Also visited JLussi.DE and it looks like a small German women's beauty products store, which I never heard of before. No, we do not have link arrangements between my sites and jlussi (or cronjob.de) and if we did that much traffic from them would be hard to believe anyway (my site is an old image storage free host site and not related to a German Cronjob or womens beauty site).
I am wondering if there is a connection between cronjobs.de and jlussi.de since they are both in Germany and both by far the 2 top URL's in my logs? We have no connection to Germany and never heard of either url or read German, and both sites are in German language, so it is real odd. In addition, noticed CronJobs.de and Jlussi.de both use large amounts of my server Bandwidth, which also seems quite odd.
Somewhat concerned there is some kind of fraud or possibly traffic theft going on here as there is no reason for all this traffic coming from these 2 obscure to me websites. Not sure if this is relevant but about the time I noticed this issue I hired a web hosting website owner in Europe (but not in Germany) to do some work on my site and I am a bit suspect he did something to cause this, especially since before he worked on it the site was getting 5 to 10 times the visits it gets vs after he was done with his work. It still get good traffic but 5 to 10 times less unique visitors than before.
It's almost like my traffic was somehow stolen overnight and I feel these sites in my stats may be a key to understand this. As a matter of fact I hired that hosting expert (who I met at a forum board) to do some work on trying to better use my good traffic (to earn more $ from my affiliate link) and also filter out the loads of free image storage low value sub-domain traffic.
Can someone please guess as to what may be going on here and why my website gets thousands of hits every day from these 3 strange referrer log sources? I have not seen these in my stats from my other sites, only for this site. Thanks.
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