Blog stats – Web bots?

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  kenhicks · Member · Sep 15, 2008 at 5:41 pm

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  In my blog stats I see a lot of strange “referrers” like:

  us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.rand…
  mail.copper.net/email/scripts/view.pl…
  us.mc572.mail.yahoo.com/mc/showMessag…
  webmail.aol.com/38575/aol/en-us/Mail/…

  Are these just web bots that aren’t really legitimate visitors?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 15, 2008 at 6:24 pm

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  The email links are from people who are clicking on your link from within an email. If you have email notifications via feedburner set up, that is likely the source. If you don’t, perhaps people are sharing links to your posts and/or blog via email.

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  kenhicks · Member · Sep 15, 2008 at 8:01 pm

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  Thanks.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 15, 2008 at 9:09 pm

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  You’re welcome.

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  dianellysmorato · Member · Sep 15, 2008 at 9:11 pm

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  thesacredpath: I had similar links in my stats, and yes, indeed, they are from email links.

  Dianellys Morato