Odd clicks in my stats
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Hello. Some odd clicks have started appearing in my site stats. The first three were yesterday, with one more today. The blog in question is for a car club: http://gpmc.org.
When I hover over the click listing, this displays at the bottom of my browser window (I didn’t get it all because my browser window isn’t wide enough): https://interyield.jmp9.com/InterYield/rd.do?affiliate=MitchJackson&subid=nosub&adCountIntervalHours=24&maxAdCountsPerInterval=6&snoozeminutes=3&url=http%3A%2F%2FFastOnlineFinder.c
When I right-clicked on it (not a wise thing to do, probably) and opened it in another tab, this was the URL displayed: http://63.209.69.107/see.php?q=<html_terms_kw>&affid=err1&subid=1&p=2&r=0&affid=err1&r=0&q=membership+greater+pittsburgh+mustang+club&p=2&subid=1
The three from yesterday, November 16, 2013 were:
http://63.209.69.107/see.php?q=<html_terms_kw>&affid=err1&subid=1&p=2&r=0&affid=err1&r=0&q=greater+pittsburgh+mustang+club+celebrating+almost+50+years+of+the+ford+mustang&p=2&subid=1
http://63.209.69.107/see.php?q=<html_terms_kw>&affid=err1&subid=1&p=2&r=0&affid=err1&r=0&q=announcements+greater+pittsburgh+mustang+club&p=2&subid=1
http://63.209.69.107/see.php?q=<html_terms_kw>&affid=err1&subid=1&p=2&r=0&affid=err1&r=0&q=2014+all+ford-powered+show+greater+pittsburgh+mustang+club&p=2&subid=1
My questions are: (1) Where are these clicks coming from? There’s nothing like them anywhere on the blog. (2) Who are Interyield and Mitch Jackson? (3) Should I be concerned about this?
Thanks for whatever help/guidance/assurance you can provide.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Howdy,
Some spammers try to game various systems to get their links anywhere possible. In this case, I believe they “tricked” our stats system to thinking someone visited that site from your site in order to make you curious about the link and click on it.
There’s no actual harm (or hacking) taking place, so you can safely ignore them. I’m asking our spam team to check into it further.
If you have any questions or need anything else, please let me know!
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Thank you for the reassurance. I will ignore anything like this in the future, and I definitely won’t click on the links!
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