Comments on: I’ve got a backlink from example.com – RFC 2606

By: Alexander Eusebio

Alexander Eusebio — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:40:43 +0000

Hi
It might be, that someone has setup a local testing virtual website using example.com in the hosts table to point to the loopback adress. If testing a webpage with a link to your site on this local testing environment, you should recieve such a referrer log entry.

By: Yu-Jie Lin

Yu-Jie Lin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:49:22 +0000

I see. Did you grep your access log? I bet those are from weird bots.

By: Disenchant

Disenchant — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:35:48 +0000

Hi,
it’s Advanced Web Statistics (awstats). Afaik, the information come from the referrer so everyone would have the possibility to fake this information in his/her requests but I don’t think that there is any reason, why anybody should do this unless this person wants me to wonder why I’ve got this entries in my statistics

By: Yu-Jie Lin

Yu-Jie Lin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:06:05 +0000

Very interesting! What is the software you used in that proof? and what does this backlink means? is that like the result you search “link:yoursite.com” in Google Search? or just mean referrer?