"Stevenson Ranch" - does it ring a bell?

Hiya Linda

Just a thought.

Your sites registered as a .com and the server is based in the US, so have you told Google in WMT that it is a UK based site?

Not sure how Bing, Yahoo, Ask etc handle .com/US based sites? Could they be sending you the odd international traffic?

Or are you just talking about email spam?

It's all mysterious-er and mysterious-er, Steve. thumbsdown

And as you'll see from searching Google.com Groups on spikes in site hits (more useful search term is server "Ian Duggan" though he says he's nowt to do with what's happening), I'm not the only site owner experiencing this. I think it would be worth everyone's while just checking whether they've had mysterious clusters of site hits from the "Ian Duggan" server, Portland and / or "Stevenson Ranch".

Nobody seems to be able to work out what's happening or why -some site owners believe there've been malicious files placed on their sites. What's also included in the Google.com info are details of various investigations the site owners have / had done and fixes they've tried. Am pleased to say my own website hosters have acted very quickly to block any malicious action.

Would be interested to hear of any developments. Best wishes, Linda

Interesting stuff Linda

seems to be refferrer spam:

"...This is a tactic used by spammers to get webmasters, curious to research their referrers, to visit the desired website. Also referred to as log spam or referrer bombing. It

You learn something every day, don't you ...

Read the article with interest and will pass it on to Rob and Keith (who look after my site for me). Now realise the golbnet and forex hits may not have been as good expressions of interest in CPUK as I'd thought! thumbsdown

GRRR and more GRRR but thanks for info and tips, Steve.