Go away bots.
When I was doing paid blogging awhile back, I changed my files around to make sure that search engine bots would crawl my site so that pages would get indexed; now it seems that they want to index everything including hotlinking to actual files on my server!
I don’t know where the hell these referrers came from, but i noticed earlier a referring link that directed me to some japanese site that had a hotlink to an mp3 file on my server. Now I know why things have been loading so slowly as well as an increase in bandwidth. I immediately went into my control panel and enabled hotlinking protection which disabled all current hotlinks out there. I also made sure that when you type in the actual address to the folder that my mp3s are stored in, that you get directed to the main site so that no one can go into the folders and download from there.
I got that taken care of, but can’t seem to get the stupid bot off my site which has been here for the past…I don’t know 10 hours?! and flooding my stats page like crazy. Hopefully, the stupid thing will go away within the next day or two otherwise I’m going to be irritated…!
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