<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>My *guess* is that a search engine crawler is causing this, as some pages running on the phx2 boxes have a clickable Red Hat logo, and crawlers would easily be able to follow that link.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, why is this such an issue? I see no reason why it'd be a problem. I would greatly appreciate if you explained why it's so concerning.</div><div><br><div>Darren VanBuren</div><div>==============</div><a href="http://theoks.net/">http://theoks.net/</a><div><br></div><div>Sent from my iPod</div></div><div><br>On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:08, Keith Watkins <<a href="mailto:kwatkins@redhat.com">kwatkins@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
Referral traffic returned to "normal" levels on 24 Sep 2010. Did
you investigate and find anything? Did you do something to stop the
referral traffic? If so, what did you do? Thank you.<br>
<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">W. Keith Watkins
Omniture Business Analyst
Red Hat, Inc.
919-301-3275
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kwatkins@redhat.com"><a href="mailto:kwatkins@redhat.com">kwatkins@redhat.com</a></a>
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On 09/23/2010 02:15 PM, Keith Watkins wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4C9B9952.9080908@redhat.com" type="cite">
Starting on 1 Sep 2010 there was a significant increase in the
traffic coming from <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoraproject.org"><a href="http://fedoraproject.org">http://fedoraproject.org</a></a>
to <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.redhat.com"><a href="http://www.redhat.com">http://www.redhat.com</a></a> and the
traffic remains elevated (see data below, although the data is for
the domain-level not the page-level). Further, this traffic is
producing click-throughs to a few specific links on the <a href="http://redhat.com">redhat.com</a>
homepage. One last data point, there does not appear to be a
pattern to the IP addresses behind this traffic (The IPs are
fairly evenly distributed across several subnets).<br>
<br>
My questions:<br>
<ol>
<li>Have you seen an increase in your overall site traffic
corresponding to our increase in referrals?</li>
<li>Have you seen a similar increase in exits from your site to
our site?</li>
<li>Does your site have any new links to our site that went live
on 1 Sep 2010?</li>
<li>Do you know of any reason we would see an increase in
referral traffic from your site?</li>
<li>Is this legitimate referral traffic or is something else
going on?<br>
</li>
</ol>
<br>
Thank you and please contact me with additional questions.<br>
<br>
<br>
Instances of <a href="http://fedoraproject.org">fedoraproject.org</a> being a referring domain to the
<a href="http://redhat.com">redhat.com</a> domain<br>
<br>
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<td align="LEFT" height="17" width="86">Date </td>
<td align="LEFT" width="125"><a href="http://fedoraproject.org">fedoraproject.org</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">08/22/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">129</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">08/23/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">188</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">08/24/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">147</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">08/25/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">230</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">08/26/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">200</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">08/27/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">207</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">08/28/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">125</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">08/29/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">141</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">08/30/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">201</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">08/31/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">181</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/01/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">7,133</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/02/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">14,303</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/03/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">12,878</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/04/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">11,663</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/05/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">12,894</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/06/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">13,973</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/07/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">13,318</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/08/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">8,755</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/09/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">7,142</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/10/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">8,777</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/11/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">10,927</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/12/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">9,985</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/13/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">10,004</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/14/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">9,283</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/15/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">9,675</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/16/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">11,044</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/17/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">9,097</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/18/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">8,889</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/19/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">10,862</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/20/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">9,017</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/21/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">8,116</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT" height="16">09/22/10</td>
<td align="RIGHT">7,422</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
W. Keith Watkins
Business Analyst
Red Hat, Inc.
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