Mysterious Referral Link
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This keeps coming up in some of our top Referrals on our website in Analytics. Does anyone know what it is? We have tried researching it and have had not luck. http://vizedhtmlcontent.next.ecollege.com/
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I received a forbidden error instead. I would not be surprised if this was spam or either a sub site on college boards.
I've seen in the past where universities that allow students to create subdomains and I've even seen people cloak Google on these subdomains!
Depending on the referral traffic behavior and what your own site's content is, we can't really tell you why you might be getting referral traffic from them.
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Hi Reggie
It looks like that there might have been a page there at some point that was referring to your site but now that page has gone. You should see the link disappear from your crawl results at some point.
Peter
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