Why all the hits from other countries? Security Issue?
adamc
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So I just installed google analytics to see where all my hits are coming from. A LOT of them are coming from soviet countries, etc. One person logged 300 views of my car pictures (with my license plates shown). Stupid on my part - I know, but now I'm wondering why and how they even found me. Is this a bot looking for car pictures, or someone involved with ID theft. Since I use the maps feature, my home address is even on there...
Anyway, I added a pw to help a little, but I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue and looked into it at all. Are there other things we should be doing to protect our info on SM?
thanks,
adam
Anyway, I added a pw to help a little, but I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue and looked into it at all. Are there other things we should be doing to protect our info on SM?
thanks,
adam
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In general, I would never mark or display your home address on your site thought.
www.ivarborst.nl & smugmug
I know if I am interested in something, like say buying a car, I will search the web looking for pictures. If I find one that answers questions for me I may visit it many times. And last time I checked, I was not yet upgraded to a bot.
"Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions." - fortune cookie
It really shouldn't be anything to be worried about. You should be able to see through Google Analytics where they are arriving from, though (in terms of URL's).
In Google Analytics, click on "Marketing Optimization" on the left, then "Visitor Segment Performance" and finally "Referring Source."