Getting swamped with visits – very suspicious
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Suddenly today I’ve had 10x the visits over the usual number. It’s highly suspicious. Where can I get help to understand what’s going on? Spammed, hacked, attacked? Help!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Look in the referrals and see if someone shared one of your Posts or put your site in a forum
don’t worry about being attacked – WordPress.COM has a whole department dedicated to keeping your site safe –
To help reduce your fears – I will flag this for the staff to look at your stats
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I looked in referrals and found a blog that is “whacky” but don’t have any idea where to find out if they “shared a post or put me in a forum.”
My blog is wordpress.COM, which, I believe has no “protection.” I have spent $250.00 to have my PC cleaned of Malware, which has never happened before I started on wordpress. I contacted support to upgrade to a “real” blog, but was told I’d have to start a new blog from scratch. This is impossible: I have over 430 posts.
I can find no way to copy my posts other than having to copy paste the text to my PC; this is very time-consuming and ridiculous. If I “export” I have no usable text, and whatever “corruption” are in the html, comes with the file and onto my PC.
Support has not responded.
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I have spent $250.00 to have my PC cleaned of Malware
While I understand your frustration, malware is terrible, there is virtually zero chance that something on the WordPress.com severs caused this.
I contacted support to upgrade to a “real” blog
I’m not sure that I understand what you are saying here. A WordPress.com site is a “real” blog.
If I “export” I have no usable text
Exporting just gives you a file until you import it somewhere else. There is no way to bulk download a text file (for example) of your WordPress.com posts.
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I looked in referrals and found a blog that is “whacky” but don’t have any idea where to find out if they “shared a post or put me in a forum.”
What do you mean by “whacky”? is it a spam referral or a real site? Were there several referrals or just one or two?
If the site is a normal site I will sometimes visit the site to see what it is and why the linked to my site – if it is a spam site I will not bother to visit it – you can post the link from your referrals section if you want someone to give you a second opinion
the reality is that traffic goes up and down – I have had ocassions where someone put a link to one of my Posts and I got an extra 50 visits from that – or one person visits and likes on of my Posts and looked at all the pictures in the Post and I get an extra maybe 200 page views
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“Whacky” means you don’t know what it is, so you have to go there, and content is there but it’s bizarre conspiratorial stuff. So is it legit or just another whacko internet front for porn and spam? By going there, have I just added more malware to my system? WordPress obviously doesn’t tell me what the site is in my referral stats. It asks ME if it’s spam-and clicking on spam merely removes the data from my stats page – it does nothing to block visits.
Traffic went from 70-80 hits a day to 915. Wouldn’t you be suspicious? There is no way on a wordpress.com blog to get widgets, access to your html (to remove redirects), or block countries or specific URLs except from comments. One is essentially a passive target.
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It may be that a self-hosted WordPress.org site would be a better fit for you if you are looking for a larger measure of control over your site’s traffic.
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That’s why I asked if I could upgrade to wordpress.org. Support said I’d have to start all over. I have 435 posts with lots of images.
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There is no “upgrade” to WordPress.org. It is not an upgrade or functionality that we offer. You would need to get a webhost (bluehost, godaddy, etc), set up a WordPress site on your server space with them, export your content here, and import it into your site there.
This guide will step you through the process of moving your site to a WordPress.org instance:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org
As we only support sites hosted here at WordPress.com, all issues with the new site – including the importing of the file – must be taken to the WordPress.org support community:
If you’d like assistance moving your WordPress.com site to WordPress.org, we have a service called Guided Transfer that does all the work for you. Check it out to see if it’s right for you:
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Holy cow! This is just too awkward for me. Why would I go through all this for unknown results? I just don’t understand how anyone would think this situation is rational.
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.ORG gives you more options
.COM – someone else takes care of the updates & security and all you need to do is write
The spike in views, while disturbing to you is no threat to your blog – here someone else takes care of that – – spikes do happen and once in a while it seems like a robot gets counted –
It is much easier here for many things, that is why I moved from a .ORG install to here
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If your posts are comprised of material you copied and pasted from over sites then there is a possibility that visitors to the sites where it was originally published are clicking into see if you attributed the material correctly. Note these results http://copyscape.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Faspergerhuman.wordpress.com%2F
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Thanks for confirming my decision to stay at wordpress.com. I guess I’ll ignore everything but writing, which is why I’m doing this.
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I do copy paste, but credit the original, indicate what are my added comments, and provide live links. I don’t credit idiots who write articles that “trash” ASD individuals: I note this on the post and my reason: I refuse to give publicity to people like that.
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I don’t copy much other content – but when I do I only use a short snippet (paragraph or so) – then a link to the other article and explain why the other article is good – sometimes I will just have a note “more information on how to do this type of activity” and a link – – so the other site always gets the traffic – – I get really upset when someone copies my entire article – even with a link
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Okay. I have not read your posts and have no time for that, but just in case this applies, please read on. do know this. Attribution is not Permission http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/08/20/attribution-is-not-permission/ you require specific written permission from the copyright holder to use any material under copyright
You cannot help yourself to material under copyright, refuse to properly attribute it in posts on your own site because you think it is “trash”, and then trash the original publishers in your post, without inviting a DMCA takedown notice.
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I get really upset when someone copies my entire article – even with a link
I don’t waste any time being upset. I file a DMCA takedown notice with the host and then I publish a post exposing the content thief to my viewers.
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You don’t understand: Autistic/ Asperger people have mild to severe difficulty navigating written material and understanding what it says; they are often in severe withdrawal and I’m doing my part as a highly verbal Asperger to explain what is being done to them by “helpers” who are not always “helping.” “Studies” are particularily difficult for many to interpret, especially when by the time they get to the pop-sci sewer – and false claims are repeated as bullying by “normal” kids. ASD’s carry a heavy burden of being blamed, shunned and rejected: they need to know what’s what. I don’t really care what your problem is. You seem to think highly of yourself, but it’s just not as important as my need to help people who no one cares about. What I write is free and open TO ANYONE.
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