On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 07:37:13PM -0700, Darren VanBuren wrote: > On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:08, Keith Watkins <kwatkins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Referral traffic returned to "normal" levels on 24 Sep 2010. Did > > you investigate and find anything? Did you do something to stop > > the referral traffic? If so, what did you do? Thank you. > My *guess* is that a search engine crawler is causing this, as some > pages running on the phx2 boxes have a clickable Red Hat logo, and > crawlers would easily be able to follow that link. > > Also, why is this such an issue? I see no reason why it'd be a > problem. I would greatly appreciate if you explained why it's so > concerning. After some conversation with Keith, I think the issue was that it was such a difference that it naturally attracted his attention looking at the resulting graphs. If Fedora caused such a jump in eyeballs on Red Hat's site, naturally Red Hat as our sponsor would be interested in what caused it, whether it's desirable, or could be replicated. Not in terms of finger-pointing, but rather, "Wow, that's really interesting, what led to so much increased interest in our site from people visiting a Fedora site?" I talked to Keith about the information he might want to procure from the Red Hat IT folks to see where the referrals actually came from. The ball's in Red Hat's court to pursue as they wish now since their own logs are going to give them the most valuable information. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- websites mailing list websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
