Significant traffic increase from fedoraproject.org to redhat.com since 1 Sep 2010

[Darren VanBuren]

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.

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.

Darren VanBuren
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On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:08, Keith Watkins <kwatkins at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> W. Keith Watkins
> Omniture Business Analyst
> Red Hat, Inc.
> 919-301-3275
> kwatkins at redhat.com
> 
> On 09/23/2010 02:15 PM, Keith Watkins wrote:
>> 
>> Starting on 1 Sep 2010 there was a significant increase in the traffic coming from http://fedoraproject.org to http://www.redhat.com 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 redhat.com 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).
>> 
>> My questions:
>> Have you seen an increase in your overall site traffic corresponding to our increase in referrals?
>> Have you seen a similar increase in exits from your site to our site?
>> Does your site have any new links to our site that went live on 1 Sep 2010?
>> Do you know of any reason we would see an increase in referral traffic from your site?
>> Is this legitimate referral traffic or is something else going on?
>> 
>> Thank you and please contact me with additional questions.
>> 
>> 
>> Instances of fedoraproject.org being a referring domain to the redhat.com domain
>> 
>> Date	fedoraproject.org
>> 08/22/10	129
>> 08/23/10	188
>> 08/24/10	147
>> 08/25/10	230
>> 08/26/10	200
>> 08/27/10	207
>> 08/28/10	125
>> 08/29/10	141
>> 08/30/10	201
>> 08/31/10	181
>> 09/01/10	7,133
>> 09/02/10	14,303
>> 09/03/10	12,878
>> 09/04/10	11,663
>> 09/05/10	12,894
>> 09/06/10	13,973
>> 09/07/10	13,318
>> 09/08/10	8,755
>> 09/09/10	7,142
>> 09/10/10	8,777
>> 09/11/10	10,927
>> 09/12/10	9,985
>> 09/13/10	10,004
>> 09/14/10	9,283
>> 09/15/10	9,675
>> 09/16/10	11,044
>> 09/17/10	9,097
>> 09/18/10	8,889
>> 09/19/10	10,862
>> 09/20/10	9,017
>> 09/21/10	8,116
>> 09/22/10	7,422
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> W. Keith Watkins
>> Business Analyst
>> Red Hat, Inc. 
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