joe123 Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 In the last 3 days i have been cursed with this traffic coming from a free gaming website which i have never asked for ,they have sent me so far thousands of "visitors" which i do not really want and traffic still coming. I never advertised with them , none of my affiliates have traffic coming from there. I have registered at this website to see how it works and found out that people are forced to click the ads to continue playing. So why would a website do that? this is a mystery for me and i can't solve it yet. have anyone else had such an experience ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanClinton Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 I'd block access from the website at server level.... otherwise it's gonna keep costing ya. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vT16 Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Is this trough google adsense or? If so, report them. In most cases, then it's illegal according to the TOS of the company to FORCE anyone to click the ads. So if that is the case, then reporting them is a good thing 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsonwebhosting Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Haven't had this myself, but I did have a site that created a popunder one time and pointed the traffic to our site. They were not an affiliate or anything, but the owner of the site was a client. I blocked the site's IP number in an .htaccess file and then contacted the owner. They had said that they were just sending free traffic to us as we had always been good to them. While we appreciated the gesture, we asked them to not send to us as a popunder is not something we wanted to be involved in. So you may just want to drop them a note and see what their reason was for sending to you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe123 Posted September 1, 2008 Author Share Posted September 1, 2008 this was not coming from an affiliate or google adwords , I thought i would wait till it goes away at sometime and today was the big bang , they were sending me traffic from 2 domains and 2 ip addresses with heavy traffic so i had to do something about it . so i created the .htaccess and blocked the domains and the IP Addresses and since 3 hours i have my normal traffic. and i hope it stays this way . thanks all 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsonwebhosting Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Did you contact them to find out why they were sending the traffic? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
othellotech Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 do some funky mod-rewrite and monetise that traffic 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrat Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 @othellotech: Excellent suggestion! ha ha. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe123 Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 Did you contact them to find out why they were sending the traffic? I did , and it says that answers to emails takes from 1-14 days which for me means never . do some funky mod-rewrite and monetise that traffic not a bad idea but i am glad it stopped somehow with the normal "forbidden" . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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