Okay, thanks for explaining things, Paul. Darren VanBuren ============== http://theoks.net/ Sent from my iPod On Oct 4, 2010, at 7:55, "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 -- websites mailing list websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
