Getting referrals from "traffic.camp" – how do I prevent it?
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My stats show I’ve had two hits from “traffic.camp”. This seems to be a site (Simple Traffic) that offers to drive traffic to sites. I’m not keen on this kind of attention, it seems to me they’d have to have a link to my blog to do this which means they are exploiting my IP for their own commercial benefit. Anyone else seeing this? Can I stop it?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hey @positivegreenford,
I don’t think you need to be worried about your account being hacked. Those are just visit stats. The staff will look at your account and provide you valid info.
They might have gotten the link from anywhere since your website is public and indexed in google.
Also, since you have a paid plan, you have access to live chat support. :) You might want to use that. Cheers!
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Hi there,
That site isn’t actually linking to yours. Instead, they’re just injecting fake referrer headers into a request to our servers to make it appear as if they are.
They’re hoping you publish access logs for your site that include referrer statistics, which isn’t uncommon, and which would generate traffic back to them. But we don’t publish those logs on WordPress.com, so unless you manually publish their URL on your site or visit them yourself, they gain absolutely nothing from doing this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referrer_spam
This doesn’t post any risk at all to your site, so you can safely ignore this – on your stats page you can mark that referrer as spam, and they won’t appear in your stats any more.
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Hello Kokkieh, thank you for you helpful response, I’ve taken your advice. I was concerned as, in the past, I had problem with a website that was copying substantial sections of my blog and reusing them on their site and they seemed to be crawling mine in order to find what they wanted. They have now agreed to exclude my site. I was getting referrals but those pages weren’t getting hits so it’s left me a bit cautious. I thought this time it might be an effort to get a visit from me so I avoided that and only went as far as searching for them. No one else has mentioned the latest site to me so they either aren’t bothered or haven’t been targeted by them. I’ll take a look at that link. It can be difficult to navigate evolving terminology about internet use.
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rawalplawit, thank you for responding. I am aware that I can ask for help that way but I wanted others to be aware of my concerns and wondered who else may have similar stats. No one has so they either haven’t or aren’t bothered if they have. I was not concerned that my account had been hacked. I’m sure know that you don’t have to hack a site to steal IP.
Cheers! : ) -
I was concerned as, in the past, I had problem with a website that was copying substantial sections of my blog and reusing them on their site and they seemed to be crawling mine in order to find what they wanted.
This does happen, though it’s not what’s happening in this case. But scraping like that is also impossible to prevent. At most you can contact the site doing the scraping and ask them to stop (which luckily worked for you that time), or try to report them to their hosting provider if they won’t.
Unfortunately that’s one of the perils of having a public website on the open web – anyone can link to it, and anyone can copy the content contained on it, and there’s nothing you as the site owner can do to prevent it. You can just go after them and try to enforce your legal rights if/when it does happen :)
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