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At my wiki, I don't try any SEO tricks at all. I just write a lot of content and focus on submitting to social news site and post my wiki on in certain forums to get feedback. Eventually, I just stop doing them.

Eventually, the search engine traffic just overtook the organic traffic that I have built over the years.

I still don't know why search.live.com show up consistently as the #1 referrer to my site even though it is completely about FOSS.



It's referral spam that Live's crawler sends out. Google analytics appears to block it, Clicky and numerous other analytics programs do not.


Do you know the exact cause? I see this too and it is just plain weird.


Google "MSNPTC". Last I checked, nobody could understand it, but it's a weird bot. I had it hammering one of my sites with bogus referrals. Many hits per second. I just blocked it.

(ModSecurity is a fantastic Apache module for blocking bots, attacks, and all manner of junk, btw)




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