Google Analytics Thinks My Blog Is A Porn Site; Clicky Says Otherwise
So I was checking my stats today and was pleasantly surprised when I noticed a big spike in traffic. Upon further investigation all the extra traffic I received was from porn site style searches from Google and Yahoo! This made me feel less pleasant as you could imagine. I then checked out my Clicky account and it showed no sign of this extra porn traffic. Suffice to say I was a little bit confused.
Here are what each of the trends look like in Google Analytics versus Clicky for today:
Google Analytics shows traffic spike
Clicky reports no such traffic spike
Here are the top 15 keywords reported used to find my site in Google Analytics versus Clicky for today:
Google Analytics reports porn-related searches brought people to my blog
Clicky reports no such porn-related searches
Has anyone else had this happen to their site recently?
I used to get a lot of traffic using porn sites as the referrer. I figured out that for me at least, this traffic was coming because my analytics were publicly available, they were forcing my analytics to make a link to the referrer for PageRank purposes.
Stephen Fluin
That happen to my blog, made a few bucks off em from adsense.
@PeEll
Genius!
No, I haven’t had this happen to my site recently. Based on my experience, porn sites prefer to buy your domain outright and make the entire thing point to their site.
I have several domains that this happens to. I tracked it back to the forum software that was previously on the domains. Spammers had buried hundreds of links to pr0n sites (and cheap tobacco/Viagra sites) in the calendar of the forum. Now, even 6+ months on, I still see a trickle of traffic for pr0n keywords coming in.
I have a lot of old domains of mine redirecting to this site. I bet the forum on my old site getsomenoise.com had the hundreds of buried links to pr0n sites and so it is being reflected in my blog traffic. That’s the only possible explanation. It just seems weird that it suddenly spiked even a while after I had redirected the old domain and my blog had been up for a couple weeks.