Visitors page - compulsive behaviour or data mining? Thread poster: Allison Wright (X)
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Allison Wright (X) 
Portugal
Local time: 08:23
About once a week I check my Visitors page.
Starting on 7 November, but especially on 9 November, someone in Mountain View, California seemed unduly in the KudoZ answered section of my profile.
Now, there is nothing remarkable there: I have a total of 118 points for Pro level questions (spread over three language pairs), have answered 107 questions, and have asked 15.
Does this really require three and a half pages of individual visits (well over 60 visits)?
... See more About once a week I check my Visitors page.
Starting on 7 November, but especially on 9 November, someone in Mountain View, California seemed unduly in the KudoZ answered section of my profile.
Now, there is nothing remarkable there: I have a total of 118 points for Pro level questions (spread over three language pairs), have answered 107 questions, and have asked 15.
Does this really require three and a half pages of individual visits (well over 60 visits)?
I am curious as to whether anyone else has observed such behaviour on their visitors page.
I am also too inept, it seems, to include a a sample screenshot, despite reading the FAQ.
The visitor only ever visits my KudoZ Answered and Profile section of my profile page. Nothing else!
Could some kind of data mining be going on? I could think of many other better sources of information, but the idea of one human being scrutinizing almost every single answer I have ever posted on ProZ does give me the utter creeps.
(Edited for punctuation.)
[Edited at 2012-11-10 14:32 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | | It is Google (search engine) | Nov 10, 2012 |
Allison Wright wrote:
About once a week I check my Visitors page.
Starting on 7 November, but especially on 9 November, someone in Mountain View, California seemed unduly in the KudoZ answered section of my profile.
Now, there is nothing remarkable there: I have a total of 118 points for Pro level questions (spread over three language pairs), have answered 107 questions, and have asked 15.
Does this really require three and a half pages of individual visits (well over 60 visits)?
I am curious as to whether anyone else has observed such behaviour on their visitors page.
I am also too inept, it seems, to include a a sample screenshot, despite reading the FAQ.
The visitor only ever visits my KudoZ Answered and Profile section of my profile page. Nothing else!
Could some kind of data mining be going on. I could think of many other better sources of information, but the idea of one human being scrutinizing almost every single answer I have ever posted on ProZ does give me the utter creeps.
Mountain view visits are from Google whose headquarter is in Mountain View California, not a human being
Best!
[Edited at 2012-11-10 12:31 GMT]
| | | | Allison Wright (X)
Portugal
Local time: 08:23
TOPIC STARTER
Thanks, Angie.
It is just that these crawler visits used to show up as such, e.g. 31 visits from the Russian Federation. I have not altered my view settings, and had never noticed this kind of pattern before.
[Edited at 2012-11-10 14:33 GMT]
| | | | OG Pete
United States
Russian to English
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| Mine My Data | Nov 10, 2012 |
Sometimes I get many dozens of visits from the same user, but I'm sure it's just a potential client doing research.
I suppose it's the job of some managers at agencies to "mine" such data and check every detail of profiles as they rank their suppliers.
I welcome such interest in my services.
Maybe outsourcers would like to chime in?
Best Regards
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Neil Coffey
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:23
French to English
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| Either way, so what...? | Nov 10, 2012 |
If you don't want it to be accessed, don't put it on the Internet...!
| | | | | Search engines | Nov 10, 2012 |
Search engine spiders crawling (and probably making your rank in search engine better) nothing to be too compulsive about From Russia it can be for example yandex.ru and from CA bing.com, google.com and maybe some other search engines. You can hide these visitors on the visitors tab.
| | | | Jessica Noyes
United States
Local time: 03:23
Member
Spanish to English
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Hello, I am accustomed to filtering out Yandex, Yahoo, and Google, from my visitor pages, but I have recently been receiving dozens of hits from Dallas, Texas. Does anyone know if this is the home of a search engine?
| | | | | SAME WITH ME | Jul 12, 2013 |
The same thing is happening with me, every "visitor" from the same place, very similar IP addresses and coming from Kudoz answers (which I stopped answering a while ago). Sounds for me honestly very suspicious. Hard to trust the visitors section on our profile with this pattern more than emerged.
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