Thank you Dirk.

Just wondering if there is an actual difference between a URL and a Permalink? If there is a difference, and an image is just a URL, would it return a 404 if there is no link (internal or external) to any of the pictures?

Moz detected 404's, ScreamingFrog detected the 404's for some (old) pictures on the current site. GWC does not mention anything on 404s on any pictures.

We have 30,000 pictures on our site. Moz will return 404's on some occasionally, but Google seems to ignore those. Should I 301 redirect all those images when we move to a new site lay-out?

Appreciate your views!

It was always my understanding that Bots crawl the source page.

The content under tabs is (or should be) on the source page then, right?

This is generic, not particularly to the theater example. The theater example is not exactly a tab question. The tabs Theatermania is  questioning are in fact navigation, and link to a new page each.

Tabs function as headers, as Oleg referred in his first comment. So why are tabs 'bad' vs all on one page?

Can someone give me an SEO perspective on true tabs? We are in the middle of redoing our site. Don't want to make a mistake on something as simple as tabs.

Thanks guys!

Thanks Joanne!!! Great tip for those who have this problem occur as well.

In a nutshell, only your Analytics is out of wack. Your hosting server (usually) will not show increased traffic. Many newly launched sites are affected by a variety of similar 'referrers'

Personally, I ignored the referrer and it disappeared as sudden as it came, after one month. Exactly as the article suggests.

As an update, those visits as we see them in Analytics are not hitting our servers. Not sure how they are doing this, but traffic does show in analytics but we do not see any spike on our servers.

We take the country out through filters at this point so we can at least review some true data.

Your question about how to ignore it after the fact can be done similar:

Go to Google Analytics > Custom Reports > Add Filter > EXCLUDE the country > Save

Now your GA will show all past results without those entries.

It is a custom report, but better than no data at all?

Hope this helps

Yep, I found that as well. The "Paid To Click" is an old trick, but they are not coming in through PPC though. Adwords is not showing any sign either, nor is tracking of PPC. that toolbar is an interesting path I have to say.

Thanks for the research Keri!

Great idea too, Valery.

The visits however are for 85% new visitors, all with unique IP addresses. Don't really think it is a scraper, but it is well possible there is a connection somewhere out there.

Thank you!

awesome answer Ryan, thank you! We blocked the referrers IP but that does not seem to make any difference (yet).

Just puzzled by a site that has no apparent meaning and thousands of people must have a login to that thing. Maybe it is a reroute from somewhere else... no clue.

Will give your advice a go tomorrow and surely will let you know the outcome.

Peter

For a few days now we are being stalked by a "referrer" site out of Bangladesh, called sky lancers dot net. Their home page is nothing but a login and password. All traffic comes from one invisible inner page. They don't seem to try to login, nor do they use PPC to get to the site. They send thousands of visitors a day.

Anyone has any idea what this site is trying to achieve and what their goal may be?

All they do is get the bounce rate to skyrocket, the time on the site to go down and the avg page views of course to go down as well, as they click out immediately after they hit the homepage.

Any suggestions on what to do about this practice? And what are they trying to achieve?

Thanks for your insights guys!