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[Fujiwara Takumi]

I have a very simple, very ugly shopping page setup that i rushed together:

beatmotorsports.com

in the meantime ive been monitoring traffic and trying to understand the users coming etc etc. in the error pages i am getting a TON of traffic to

beatmotorsports.com/inventory

so i put a page there:

beatmotorsports.com/inventory/index.php

which basically just sends me an email when someone reaches there with the page that referred them, and their IP address (just so i could tell who was me and who wasnt)

so the referring pages i expected to be some forum or advertisment but theyre not, theyre my own pages:

they came from:http://beatmotorsports.com/inventory/body.php and their IP was 68.112.240.225
they came from:http://www.beatmotorsports.com/inventory/chassis1.php and their IP was 205.141.247.28
they came from:http://www.beatmotorsports.com/inventory/chassis1.php and their IP was 68.108.95.225
they came from:http://www.beatmotorsports.com/inventory/interior3.php and their IP was 87.196.130.176

so what the heck is this? what about my code is causing the inventory directory to be accessed? i think im just misunderstanding my logs or the server technology.

TIA

Blake
beatracing motorsports

[Mark S]

It seems people are going to your website and then clicking on the inventory page.

If this is the case-- to get the real referrer information, put the logging script on your main page, and/or store the refer information in a variable (or maybe even a cookie) and then when the user visits inventory/index.php, have it email you, etc.

[ThatScriptGuy]

In your source, you do have a link to /index.php, even though there is nothing that is linked, it is still there. Perhaps that is causing some of it? (doubtful, but that's all I can come up with right now)
Kevin

[Fujiwara Takumi]

Originally Posted by MarkSNET

It seems people are going to your website and then clicking on the inventory page.

If this is the case-- to get the real referrer information, put the logging script on your main page, and/or store the refer information in a variable (or maybe even a cookie) and then when the user visits inventory/index.php, have it email you, etc.

what inventory page? i dont think there is such a thing or a link to that.

[deuce868]

Have you seen this code for instance on your body.php file?

&nbsp;<a href="http://beatmotorsports.com/index.php">Home</a>&nbsp;<a href="index.php"></a></font></td>

It looks like the empty link would be a link to /inventory that came from inventory/body.php

You have these empty links in several places throughout the page. I would clean up all that mess and see if it fixed anything. Maybe in some browser the empty links are showing clickable or something.

[Fujiwara Takumi]

ah yes, i see it now! i was searching for instances of "inventory" not index. thanks that helps a lot!