MySpace spider traffic

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  andyc · Member · Jun 15, 2006 at 9:50 pm

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  I once made the mistake of linking to MySpace (in a disparaging fashion). I severed the link but my punishment is that I have subsequently been plagued by the following referrer in my WP stats.

  link:0_ArKg1KPDkJ:www.myspace.com/

  The referrer is static. Same referrer day after day. Can it be added to some blacklist ?

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  drmike · Member · Jun 15, 2006 at 9:58 pm

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  You’re linking to MySpace and don’t want your punishment? :)

  Comes from Google. I don’t think we want to blacklist them. :)

  How to dupe:

  – Visit google.

  – type www. myspace. com into the search and run (Spaces added to get the whole thing to show up.)

  – You’ll see a link to the site as well as an option to show all links to MySpace. Click on that option.

  – You’ll now see your referral in Google’s search bar as well as your site on that first page of returns.

  See?

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  andyc · Member · Jun 15, 2006 at 10:26 pm

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  So when Google trawls the page again, and the link is absent, will this referrer die ?

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  drmike · Member · Jun 15, 2006 at 10:31 pm

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  Probably. The thing I’m concerned about though is I’m looking at the cache for the page in question and the link is already gone as far as I can tell. I don’t see the link at all.

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  andyc · Member · Jun 15, 2006 at 10:49 pm

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  Yes. I editted the original post and broke the link in an attempt to kill it.

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  drmike · Member · Jun 15, 2006 at 11:01 pm

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  Yeah, but I would have thought that since the link is still being credited, it would have to be in the cache though.

  I posted this in my support forum. I’ve got about 2 dozen SEO nutcases over there. Maybe one of them will have an answer.

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  andyc · Member · Jun 15, 2006 at 11:53 pm

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  Thanks DrMike. Your interest and informative replies are much appreciated.

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  nosysnoop · Member · Jun 16, 2006 at 12:41 am

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  But if your MySpace and the name of your site has the same name, it will show up on Google anyway, I think. But I think I remember seeing my MySpace on Google on the same page of my blog here.

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  drmike · Member · Jun 16, 2006 at 3:13 pm

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  The ‘link:’ bit in the search bar is a method of looking up actual links to the site in question, in this case MySpace. Without a link being there, it shouldn’t be showing up. If Andy has a post with that title, it would show up in a regular search, not a link search.

  The general response I’m getting back from my support forum is that the copies of your site that Google keeps are seperate from the Indexed copy and the Cached copy. It is one of those secrets that Google keeps to themselves but that appears to be the general conclusion in this case. The link should disappear once your page gets reindexed but do remember that for us here in the States, we only see three main datacenters, not the ones that do the actual indexing and compiling. It make take some time to get up to those three main clusters. (I don’t have any idea how Google is set up in the UK but I’m sure it’s the same method.)

  You can peek into the other datacenters using one of the comparision sites. I use this one myself. Load in that bit you gave above into the bar near the search button at the upper left and poke around for a bit. Looks like though they all still have the link though at this time.

  Good luck,
  -drmike