Hi all,
There is a file on my site that is definitely getting hotlinked to, and I'd really like to put a stop to it.
I'd like to find out who's doing it before I make it impossible with an htaccess file.
There is no doubt in my mind that the traffic is not coming from my users.
In November, the file in question got over 900 hits, while the rest of the files in the same section only got around 100 each.
I didn't even get 900 visits in November.
I made a little experiment to make sure it wasn't from my site.
At the beginning of December I changed the name of the file and the link to it, and put a dummy file in its place.
There isn't a link to the file from my site, but I've gotten 200 hits to it in the first week of the month.
Is there a way to see referrals to a specific file?
My hosting company uses Webalizer, and it does not show referrals to individual files.
There isn't anything out of the ordinary in my normal referral logs.
I have no problem with people sending visitors to my site to get the file, but linking to the file directly is not good.
It steals my bandwidth, robs me of visitors, and lets the other site get the credit for having the file (a rare Evanescence recording).
If anyone has any ideas, let me know.
Thanks!