Tools like Omniture account for and filter out most search engine crawlers so that is most likely not the issue.
Having worked at Omniture (now part of Adobe) in a previous life, I can vouch for this.
Unfortunately, I don't have enough information to be able to make an educated guess as to why we're seeing an increase in referrals from fedoraproject.org to redhat.com. As Paul said, the http logs from Red Hat IT are probably going to be the most valuable in helping us find out several key pieces of information: 1) Which page(s) on www.fedoraproject.org are referring people to redhat.com, and 2) Are there any similarities re: User Agent on those redirects and 3) are all the redirects going to the same page on www.redhat.com and 4) Is there any variability in IP addresses? Times of day?
While Omniture's SiteCatalyst should be able to give you some of this information, I'd love to see someone grab the HTTP logs from the server and do some more focuses analysis.
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Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader
Unfortunately, I don't have enough information to be able to make an educated guess as to why we're seeing an increase in referrals from fedoraproject.org to redhat.com. As Paul said, the http logs from Red Hat IT are probably going to be the most valuable in helping us find out several key pieces of information: 1) Which page(s) on www.fedoraproject.org are referring people to redhat.com, and 2) Are there any similarities re: User Agent on those redirects and 3) are all the redirects going to the same page on www.redhat.com and 4) Is there any variability in IP addresses? Times of day?
While Omniture's SiteCatalyst should be able to give you some of this information, I'd love to see someone grab the HTTP logs from the server and do some more focuses analysis.
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Jared Smith
Fedora Project Leader
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