by Phillip » Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:41 am
Yeah. My site has one post on it, and it has been like that for a long time, and even if there is decent PR, it's not ranking for anything. The site that is bombarding me are some "big" auction site, so it looks like someone has found a way to abuse those sites, or it is the site owners doing that. If this had been going on from the start, I would believe that it was unintentional. taobao.com has 110 million pages indexed in google and clearly has frigging tens of thousands of pageloads per day.
Although it looks to me as if it is not the site that is bombarding me directly - they are using their visitors bandwidth to load a non existant wma file from my domain, causing it to 404 (or 500) in the background without the user even noticing it. Just like someone would be doing when hotlinking images - the users browser would load up the image from the other server and to the user it looks like it is all coming from the same site.
I guess I'll have to try to contact taobao.com owners... Hope they speak english...
edit: And of course - they only have a telephone number listed there - no e-mail addresses...
edit2:gah found it!
edit3: somehow they are still cosuming my bandwidth!!! Now it's up to 5gbs, even if the limit is clsoed - I'll have to park the domain for now or something !
edit4: and now it seems to be spreading 8b8d.com is doing the same thing somehow - although I can't find the referring url in their source codes... So I parked the domain for now - it's eating up the resources of my reseller account!
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