All these web referrals from Russian sites?

[JBelthoff]

Sorry to dominate this thread but I have been doing computer programming for the web for the last 10 years so it's what I do.

SEO and website design....

If it was me, I would not worry about it if it is only a few random referrers. However it could be indicative that someone is using your images and bandwidth and if it grows bigger you may want to move some of your images and other resources on the domain around.

Other than that, I don't think it's a problem...

[Frank Petronio]

Yeah I am just curious, I find it slightly annoying but probably harmless.

[RichardSperry]

Image hotlinks back to your images, probably.

Russian hot chicks dot ru stuff.

[Michael_4514]

Here's the answer:

http://www.plrinternetmarketing.com/...referrer-spam/

[Photomax]

What happened to Frank?

[Kimberly Anderson]

I get them too. I am disabling anonymous commenting and enabling word verification. Kind of getting tired of it. Almost ready to abandon all web content at all. I've pulled down everything except for one blog and one password protected web site. Sigh.

[Sal Santamaura]

What happened to Frank?

Searching works well:

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...frank+petronio

[Jim collum]

understand how you feel. I fight an almost daily battle with turning off web presence. I think the most it will do is make me feel good. I suspect that within a generation, the concepts of intellectual property and personal privacy will be ideas of the past... with no reason to protect images (or personal information) on the web. I've been deeply involved with computers since 1977, and the web since it's inception (the good old DARPA days, and modem based BBS's). It's always been a love-hate relationship.

I get them too. I am disabling anonymous commenting and enabling word verification. Kind of getting tired of it. Almost ready to abandon all web content at all. I've pulled down everything except for one blog and one password protected web site. Sigh.

[Photomax]

Hhhmmm, wow Frank!

I don't want to open old wounds but he is a colorful guy who makes forums fun.

I had a message exchange with Frank several years ago. I lived in Rochester when I was a RIT student. I reached out to Frank to see if we could meet next time I was in town (I live in Seattle) and he had choice words about being an RIT student! This is his actual response to me reaching to him:

Oh of course, it is great fun to meet real people from the Internet.

I'm 47 and don't get out much...

Frank

Which I thought was hysterical...

Cheers to all!