Why do I have so much 404 traffic?
 

2k a day of 404 traffic seems really steep. WTF are they doing as I never remove pages or do any of the things people do to make 404 traffic.

This is non paysites so it is not people looking for memebers areas.

I'll take it if you don't want it.

Why are you complaining or even questioning free traffic?

Analyze where it is coming from...

check your error logs, see whats happening.

what he said... logs will tell it all

I notice the same thing, and in my instance it was crawlers looking for robots.txt, which I don't have. Also, I think that MSIE looks for favorite.ico when it hits your site, and if it isn't there that counts as a 404 as well. :2 cents:

i've been having a lot of 404s on one of my domains for some reason ahh well, i have it re-directed to more porn :Graucho

no, you are wrong.. MSIE looks for favorite.ico only when you have favicon tag in page source

I get a bunch of 404 traffic from freesites and galleries, nothing ever deleted, but if you have URLs like anal/free01/index1.html many surfers seem to try to play with the numbers to find more free porn :321GFY

I always make sure that there isn't a 02 after a 01, a 05 maybe, then a 11, don't let them figure out a way to find more for free :winkwink:

Nope, when someone bookmarks the site IE looks if there is a favicon.ico.
When you upload an icon (I think Apache) sends it automatically to the browser when the page is loaded.

I only get that many uniques a day. Give me your 404's and my traffic will double! :winkwink:

You could send your 404 traffic to my click-thru program, Impure Thoughts.

:winkwink:

are you russian?

Send it all to www.*******.com :Graucho

seen a good article about 404 traffic on www.awm-blog.com

I use it for AFF. They freaking convert anything.

Good article and it points out that this is real 404 traffic as I am using the uniques at AFF.

.1 cent is what my 404 traffic is making. That sound about right?

no thats pretty low,you can do way more than that

Best way to beat the snoopers and get a decent amount of free traffic:thumbsup

Cant say why but I would take advantage of that asap