I just checked the December stats and a site called Stockleaf.com has linked to the camping page and downloaded the images more than 200 times. How can I stop this? I went to the Stockleaf site and it is a financial site. I don't know why the link exists.

Also, I have the images so they cannot be right clicked, but when supersized, they can be right-clicked and downloaded.

What do you mean by linked to your camping page?

How do you know that images have been downloaded?

Please be clearer...

it is probably the case of spammers and isn't too much you can do as far as spammers go


this is just the type of site a spam site could be and more

the right click script can be worked around and more

if they had the same IP address when visiting your site I would say block their IP

not sure too much else of what you can do

What you are seeing (probably) is a bot from Stockleaf.com - you can ban this bot , but you will need to use some code...

Googling it may help...

It is the same IP address. How can I block it? There were 130 downloads on 12/28.

There is an IP blocking option in your Bravenet account.

I right clicked on everything on your site, I would suggest another right click script and definately ban that IP. I think they are interested in your graphics, it is a nice site with lots to offer for someone looking for that type of pictures.

Also, contact the owner of the site and say, "Look, if you want to use the pictures that is fine, but don't link to my site to do it, download them and then upload them to your own server." It sounds to me like they have just linked to your pictures and everytime someone loads there site it counts as a hit to yours.

Anyway, best of luck to you. I wish I had someone that interested in any of my 30+ sites.

Browser: Nightmare1158,4

I think you are really onto something, although it looks like the main objective was not really to use up some of your bandwidth, but rather to manipulate your site's usage log to create what appear to be extra links to their site. That is, to make search engines think that your site actually contains links to theirs, to help move their site up in Google (etc.) search results for keywords that appear on their site.

A Google search for "referer spam" yields some interesting info, such as:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer_spam

It looks like part of the problem is if sites around the Internet have their access logs available to be viewed by anyone, this can make them targets for this sort of spam.

The wikipedia article I linked above explains the problem, and outlines some solutions.