How can i see where visitors came from?
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@sathitharan
I’m sorry if I offended you. I found nothing that I did not already know. Perhaps others will find something they did not know. -
I may be heading in a different direction here, but I get referrers such as [spam URL removed] and wondered what these are. When I click on them, I am often sent to the broken link message. These odd URLs often have a lot of page views as well. Can anyone help?
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@foodrefashionista
This is a different issue.
Do NOT click the links.
Do NOT post any more the URLs to the forum
Report these spam refferer links directly Staff please http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ -
@foodrefashionista
For more clarity I searched and located this for this for you.
Response from staff:Thanks for reporting this – we are aware of this problem and are working hard to find a solution to fix it.
Some background: what you’re experiencing is called “Referrer Spam”, and it’s an unfortunate side effect of the way statistics tracking works. Spammers take advantage of the referrer logs and visit your blog from phantom URLs that they are actually trying to promote, in the hope that you see them in your logs and click them.
In the meantime, you can rest assured that there is no security risk here, to you or to you blog. It’s just an annoyance, but one we will hopefully be able to get rid of very soon.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tons-of-hits-from-spam-domain?replies=29#post-548475These spam referrers do not in any way affect your blog’s Google page ranking.
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timethief experience with counters is beyond my own. Here is my grain of sand on the topic. This explain how to install the widgets mentioned. See the Suggested Reading for all articles from timethief
http://lifenbits.com/2011/03/05/cool-stats-widgets-you-will-like/
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@timethief I agree with timethief @ getclicky. I’ve used getclicky for a number of years, and really like it.
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