I'm getting hit botted. In a kind of weird way.
Here's whats going on. I have a site that was lagging so I thought I'd give it a short term traffic boost. I'm always looking for new sources so I tried someone different. Bought some traffic from this guy and its the type that doesn't show up on third party tracking. Not on 3 different tracking scripts. It's showing up on my sponsors stats page as 3 clicks per IP. At the same time. So I went into my server logs and it shows that it hits my site, somehow makes me the referrer, and then sends to my sponsor. It goes through the same exact image on my site every time. But the weirdest part is I got 2 joins from this traffic.
Heres part of my sponsors clickthrough log:
2010-09-23 10:50pm 79.240.111.11,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:49pm 69.171.178.77,6
2010-09-23 10:44pm 76.22.135.61,12
http://www.datingport.co.uk/
2010-09-23 10:27pm 64.12.117.6,127
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:27pm 64.12.117.15,12
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:16pm 174.133.57.66,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:16pm 174.133.57.66,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:16pm 174.133.57.66,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:11pm 174.133.59.84,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:11pm 174.133.57.68,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:11pm 174.133.59.84,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:11pm 174.133.59.84,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:11pm 174.133.57.68,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:10pm 174.133.220.209
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:10pm 174.133.220.209
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:10pm 174.133.220.209
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:09pm 174.133.59.83,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:08pm 174.133.59.83,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:08pm 174.133.59.83,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 10:06pm 64.105.17.18,12
http://marrieddatingguide.com/
2010-09-23 9:13pm 174.133.57.64,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 9:13pm 174.133.57.64,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 9:13pm 174.133.242.161
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 9:13pm 174.133.57.64,1
http://dating-married-women.com/
2010-09-23 9:13pm 174.133.242.161
http://dating-married-women.com/
Now here's what it says on my server logs: (I highlighted in red and added comment)
Quote:
Host: 174.133.57.66 /
Http Code: 200 Date: Sep 23 22:16:07 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in Bytes: 18804
Referer: http://bulktraffic.biz/engine.php (Actual referrer)
Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
/68978101_1-Pictures-of-Lonely-Widowed-Seeking-True-Love.jpg (Img link to sponsor)
Http Code: 200 Date: Sep 23 22:16:19 Http Version: HTTP/1.0 Size in Bytes: 31315
Referer: http://dating-married-women.com/ (my site sending to sponsor)
Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
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On every entry like this, the engine sends the bot the first time to read my site. Then the same ip revisits with the spoofed referrer about 15 minutes later. I don't want to bore you with multiple entries but they all do the same thing.
My question is, how can I make it stop automatically passing on to my sponsor and stop at my landing URL? I would normally block this stuff but I got 2 joins out of it so far.