Comments on: Useless Traffic

By: A mail from the Adsense Team - JohnTP.com

A mail from the Adsense Team - JohnTP.com — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:34:35 +0000

[...] A few weeks back I had mentioned about the useless traffic I was getting from the traffic exchange service -www.website-traffic.cc that someone had registered for. After returning from my break, I found a mail from the Adsense team who had detected the invalid clicks that had been generated on my Google Ads through users of the traffic exchange site. [...]

By: John T P

John T P — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:24:33 +0000

It can be done with the WordPress Plugin 'Related Posts'. You can find this and more useful plugins here

By: Quix0r

Quix0r — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:53:49 +0000

Sorry for this offtopic post:

How did you made these “related posting links” below this input box?

By: Quix0r

Quix0r — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:51:29 +0000

Hello John,

you may want to setup a PHP script that bans such referrers away from your blog. E.g.:

# Code begins here
$blockedRefs = array(”http://www.website-traffic.cc”);

$ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

foreach ($blockedRefs as $blocked) {
if (strpos($ref, $blocked) !== false) {
// Bounce them back to themselve
header(”Location: “.$ref);
exit();
}
}

# Code ends here

There is also a .htaccess solution for this. It’s based on mod_rewrite and works with RewriteRule and so on. Unfortunately I don’t know how it exactly goes.

But you may want to google for “RewriteRule HTTP_REFERER” or so.

By: John T P

John T P — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:06:07 +0000

I have noticed an increase in RSS subscribers, do you think it’s because of this traffic?

By: Keith Dsouza

Keith Dsouza — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:07:13 +0000

Yes John I am getting the same traffic.

It is totally useless, so what I am going to do is check the referrer and redirect it to some static page which only has a message and no images etc.

This way i will not loose bandwidth.

Its a headache and I still don’t understand who registered me there.