Lately I have been getting hundreds of pageviews per day, as compared to mere tens or twenties. It's pretty weird, and considering that most of them have been from RUSSIA...well, I finally decided to check it out.
Searching on google for the actual source of my pageviews, I found that one of my top sources, a site known as domar [dot] ru, (DO NOT VISIT), is a spamming site. Here I found an explanation of what is going on (WIKIPEDIA link). Bottom line, there are not actual page views happening, but the website is requesting my site and then disconnecting before the connection is complete. But by clicking on the link of the spammer's site, which I did, it increases the number of links that link back to the spammer's site, increasing its ranking in web searches done with search engines, like google.
By clicking on the site a couple times and finding nothing (in the sources tab of blogger, which was a big mistake), I encouraged this site, domar, to continue using my blog as a host for its parasitic activities. Now, I'm not exactly sure what the implications of this sort of thing could be, but to be on the safe side, I think I'm going to move this website in the not-too-distant future to a more secure spot.
I'll do some more research and see if this could have any bad tidings for my blog, and to see if this is a problem with any other blogging services, like wordpress or tumblr, etc.
So, don't expect many more updates on this blog, except to notify of other developments...but this site will always be here.
Vikram
