It is a fake referral. Someone is using proxies and scavenging your pages with that referrer. I believe they are probably using IDEA to watch who is buzzing about them publicly. There is a good chance they are scanning the forums and trying to link nics with pages from their crawls.
Anyway it is a rouge bot (probably templates stealing) and bogus traffic.
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If you want more information, try the following Google search
I quote from webmasterworld.com
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It is a fake referral. Someone is using proxies and scavenging your pages with that referrer. I believe they are probably using IDEA to watch who is buzzing about them publicly. There is a good chance they are scanning the forums and trying to link nics with pages from their crawls.
Anyway it is a rouge bot (probably templates stealing) and bogus traffic.
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If you want more information, try the following Google search
site:webmasterworld.com iaea
Posted by pete | Link to this comment | 01-17-04 1:06 PM