Tuesday, September 9, 2008

The Russians Are Attacking Me

For 3 or 4 months now I've been being vexed by Russians.

In my webstats for my Eyes on Texas website I get a list of external websites that link to mine. There are several dozen Russian websites supposedly linking to mine, currently showing either 38 or 39 hits from each Russian website. This number will go up as the month progresses, all at the same pace. If I go to one of the Russian website I see no link to mine.

I've asked the support people at my webhost for help. Unfortunately, and maybe ironically, the support center is in the Ukraine and the responses are usually gibberish. I'd think they were in cahoots with the Russians, but the Ukraine and Russia are currently not on the friendliest of terms.

In another weird, possibly related problem, my Google Webmaster Tools currently shows over 6,000 404 No Page Found Errors. This means websites are linking to pages on my website that do not exist. All of the links go to a sub-folder of the very AWSTATS webstat thing that shows me the long list of Russian websites.

And in a possible further irony, it was the aforementioned Ukrainians who installed the AWSTATS for me when their other webstats generator kept malfunctioning.

I hate stuff like this. It's very frustrating. And I don't know if it's hurting me or not. Below are some of the Russian websites with their mysterious links to me. Very vexing.

http://dancemates.ru/
http://equipmentbusinesses.info/
http://www.deciduoustrees.info/
http://cassations.ru/
http://fruitherbs.info/
http://www.wildberry.ru/
http://sciencelead.ru/
http://therapeutist.ru/
http://educationalprofessions.info/
http://www.littlelizard.info/
http://childadvice.ru/
http://antiallergia.info/
http://bestmeatmarket.net/
http://towngrow.ru/

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