I've looked in the logs, and there are many entries of this kind:
nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn - - [10/Nov/2003:05:06:31 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 18558 "http://one-specific-pornsite.net/..." "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT5.0)"
Almost every entry has different IP, and the specific sub page on the porn site varies as well. The requested page is always "/" and the user agent is always set exactly as above. There are never any accompanying requests for such things as images or style sheets.
This thing clearly is a robot used for the single purpose of getting just such links as on our stats page, to increase their google ranking.
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Walter Vermeir walter-at-wikipedia.be |wikipedia| wrote:
Hi,
I have noticed in the stats of Wikipedia NL; http://nl.wikipedia.org/stats/
... for several months traffic from strange websites, porn websites.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/stats/usage_200311.html#TOPREFS
The send traffic to Wikipedia but i can not find a hyperlink to wikipedia on there website. I suppose the do this to get a higher google ranking?
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