"top clicks" spam

tandava108 · Member · Feb 17, 2011 at 9:21 am
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In my stats page I noticed that I had a lot of clicks to these sites. These links don’t appear anywhere on my blog. Then I noticed that they also appear at the top of my “top clicks” widget on my blog footer.

A shows that these are also on these are the top clicks of over 11,000 other wordpress.com blogs.

I am certain that someone has found a way to fool the stats system.

Can the widget be changed to only allow links that actually appear on the blog? If not I will probably remove it, as these certainly are not the top clicks of my users.

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tandava108 · Member · Feb 17, 2011 at 9:22 am
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That should say “A google search shows”

http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=active&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=%2B%22wordpress.com%22+%22Top+Clicks%22+%2B%22zomoyun.com%22+%2B%22mp3indirdinle.com%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
raincoaster · Member · Feb 17, 2011 at 10:10 am
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I bet I know what it is: Adsense clickspam. Sometimes when people have an Adsense ad they pay per click, so their competitors pay spammers to click through hundreds of times, costing them a ton. If you do not have the AdFree UPgrade, I bet that’s what it is.
tandava108 · Member · Feb 17, 2011 at 10:43 am
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Thanks, that’s interesting. It does make the “top clicks” widget a bit useless without the AdFree upgrade. It would be good if it could exclude advertising clicks.
raincoaster · Member · Feb 17, 2011 at 11:08 am
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It should. That it doesn’t is definitely a bug.
staff-blorbo · Staff · Feb 17, 2011 at 7:58 pm
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We’re definitely looking into this.

For now, please consider removing the Top Clicks widget, as you certainly wouldn’t want them to be getting free advertising off of your blog. ;)

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