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Choker is a good guy. I started a trade with him recently, and his script kept shutting it down. My site was passing on this bullshit bot traffic over to him. Like you, Truth, I know almost every one of my trades, and I find it hard to beleive any of them are actually the source. On top of this, Choker saw similar stats coming from other established sites, run by well known and respected webmasters. So, thankfully, I didn't get blasted on a cheaters board. Instead, he helped me address this problem.
Choker says this bullshit traffic is possibly coming from as many as four trades away. He passed on the IP info to me, helped me get my htaccess set up, and our trade has been healthy ever since. And I have not noticed an inordinate drop in traffic, besides the usual weekend slowdown (my best days seem to be Mon-Wed).
This new bot is a motherfucker. It didn't click on my hidden links. I did not see any weird stats in my UCJ generated referrer reports. I do not know where it was comning from. And I'm sure my trades weren't aware they were sending this over to me, either.
Equinox
I spoke with Lane the other night. He said it wasn't ready for re-sale yet, and I might get in on phase two of his beta testing.
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