eBlush_Hector — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:29:41 +0000

Wow, I just came across this and must add:

His conversion is 5:600 or 1:120, which is GREAT! Even if some ore fake... I'd take that in an instant!

Patrick A Baer — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 02:25:06 +0000

Hello gtech,

almost any provider I know uses some kind of monitoring tool to watch their machines. Maybe your provider does too frequently scan your site for a running http-service? I know it sounds a little bit odd since the hits are there every six seconds or so, but it might be worth a try!

Patrick

PS: I just traced the IP in the log, it belongs to some subnet in Costa Rica, does that ring a bell maybe?

yeah

gtech — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:56:19 +0000

now that's what I want to do..

but can you recommend anyone else that can provide specific traffic ?

I'm not saying the s*ck..well,ok, they do. They do deliver..out of 600 clicks last month, 5 became real customers and 150 clicks were 'fake' like the ones I posted in the original thread. Now I can only wonder what would happen if I had 600 REAL clicks.

*dreaming*

JeevesBond — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:48:51 +0000

Even if you did block the ip, wouldn't business.com still charge? They're still forwarding the request successfully, and they don't sound like people who're willing to listen to the voice of reason!

Perhaps the best thing to do is ditch business.com, if they refuse to help or concede!

well...

gtech — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:28:32 +0000

I'm not sure how I can block this!

one of my traffic providers is business.com and they send me lots of clicks like this for which they charge me. I have no way of finding out which IP will be coming next so I can ban it..

furthermore, I tried talking to them and try and reason. It's obvious that these 'visitors' aren't real. If it were a real visitor it would ask next for all the images/css files referenced in my index.php as others do, but it does not. It simply requests '/' and that's it, costing me $$$.

40 or so clicks like this cost me 100$ so I definetely want to put an end to this.

mairving — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:22:21 +0000

Not much info about who owns that IP Address. The block is owned by Infonet but there isn't a reverse DNS entry so it is hard to tell. I doubt if it is a bot as Bob mentioned since most bots are glad to advertise as such. It also lists the OS, which would tend to indicate that it is an actual user. If it is costing you some money and not providing any value, then I would block it as Bob mentioned.