phantom referrals

brockwatcher · Member · May 30, 2010 at 8:34 pm
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I’ve been getting this problem for a while now, but on a low enough level not to concern me. Today however the apparent number of hits on my homepage has sky-rocketed thanks to alleged referrals from mystufie.co.cc/hotvids[number] which completely blows the validity of my referral stats out of the water.

I see that WP support people told us back in March not to worry as they were on the case …. it’s now almost June and this problem is getting worse from my perspective.

Are any third party referral tracking packages available and how are they integrated into WP?
timethief · Member · May 30, 2010 at 8:52 pm
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There are several free non- javascript third party vistor tracking systems we can use on wordpress.com blogs. Some are real time live tracking systems and some aren’t. You will find the ones I have reviewed except go-stats on this page http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/popular-posts/ under “Visitor Tracking”.

Note: wordpress stats and all the others will never agree. Each one of them decides how and what they will count as a hit. Some count page views and some count unique visitors. Therefore, use any of them as only as a general guide to hits.
saedacuncha · Member · May 30, 2010 at 10:51 pm
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Just reporting another Blogger phantom, today:
pleasefreeinfo.blogspot.com
I wonder how can blogger, or digg, allow this.
brisurban · Member · May 31, 2010 at 11:00 am
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IMHO don’t post the whole URL on there. Otherwise it will add to the links on the net which is what they want- coverage!
taletellerin · Member · May 31, 2010 at 3:40 pm
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Good point, brisurban!
timethief · Member · May 31, 2010 at 4:05 pm
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It’s my opinion that everyone experiencing such problems ought to be privately filing support tickets with Staff, rather than doing this information exchange in a forum thread. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
sl1k · Member · May 31, 2010 at 6:04 pm
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I agree with timethief, because this is a technical issue volunteers can not fix
timethief · Member · May 31, 2010 at 6:58 pm
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@slik
Moreover posting these sites URLs here only advertises them, and we don’t really want to do that now, do we? Maybe this thread should be closed.
sl1k · Member · May 31, 2010 at 9:23 pm
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@TT Yeah I agree It would be bad to advertise those spam sites thread is being closed…

@Everyone Please direct phantom referral issues directly to the support staff via → http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact

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