Saturday, 1 December 2012

Kallery.net, is it spam?

 Have you been getting a lot of page views from Kallery.net from South Korea? They appear to visit every blog and they really mess up with the stats. Here is my story:

After reading countless articles on how I can earn a six-figure salary through a blog, I have been blogging with a vengeance. Well, not really because I still have not signed up with Adsense and so I am earning nothing from blogging. However, occasionally (mostly when my employer irritates me) I do write several blog posts.

It was a relief to see that at least I had an audience-a whooping 3 views moments after publishing a blog post! I was ecstatic, but wait a minute, all the views are from one source: kallery.net. So South Koreans are finding my content interesting and worth attention?

The first thing I did was to click on the referring URL-can't remember where I ended up (Many bloggers say that they end up at porn galleries which is very weird). My instincts told me to be wary of spam, but I had already clicked on it out of excitement. I did a Google search on the site and found several complaints from bloggers like me who lamented about visits from the site which really messed up with the stats. Apparently, bloggers who use blogspot.com are the main culprits. Some bloggers in Google product forum said that Kallery.net was just interested in advertising products to bloggers.

I slumped into my seat. So I do not have a worthwhile audience after all? Maybe I should still continue writing academic articles and get them A+ grades.
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74 comments:

  1. Unknown21 February 2013 at 12:31

    Thanks for the info, I was wondering the same thing on my blog, and you have put my mind at ease... but now you have another page view! :) But it's not from kallery.net :\

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    1. Mary Mainer24 February 2013 at 18:31

      Thanks for stopping by Tom. They are every blogger's nightmare. But I have noticed that they just visit a blog after a post has been published.

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    2. Rachel8 June 2013 at 21:34

      Every time I post something new, I get a new hit from kallery.net. There's another one I see sometimes that I'm pretty sure is a similar site.

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    3. Unknown1 August 2013 at 21:26

      If it makes you feel better...you are receiving traffic to your blog via google searches for kallery.net. So, in a sense, they did you a favor. The world is odd, isn't it? :) They're trying to use you, and their Karma is that you are benefiting. Go you. Here is another page view that's not spam. Cheers.

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    4. Geek Speaks2 August 2013 at 06:32

      Ditto! I ended up on your blog because I was searching for "who are Kallery.net" ;)

      Go Kallery!

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    5. Unknown5 August 2013 at 12:18

      Yep! Me too! :)

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    6. Chris Enoch29 August 2013 at 09:31

      I'm here also because I googled Kallery. You are getting famous!

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    7. May 2 September 2013 at 00:18

      Same here...so it's def. working as a promotional tool for your blog!

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    8. Wizzybit9 September 2013 at 15:37

      Perhaps I should write a blog about weird spam bots. You've already got more hits than I ever have.

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    9. Gerry Skoyles18 November 2013 at 10:20

      Correct. Kallery visited my blog for the first time today. Other menaces include Vampirestats, and a bogus Addsense

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    10. Jake Wells18 November 2013 at 22:45

      I have had my blog for 22 hours, and I've got 100 pageveiws! haha, all spam. Love it

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    11. Unknown22 December 2013 at 09:27

      I also just noticed them right after publishing latest blog installment. Must be automatic spamware. http://ralphfred2.blogspot.com/

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    12. Akai Hana28 December 2013 at 04:16

      Haha, me too. kallery net, vampirestat and 7secretsearch

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    13. Anonymous8 January 2014 at 02:03

      I've had a few issues with them aswell, also beware of 7secretsearch.com adsensewatchdog.com and vampirestats.com all of these are spam sites and apparently that come from trojans infected on your computer already from my understanding.

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  2. Marshee24 February 2013 at 06:24

    hey your site is interesting, id love to follow an academic writing blog :p

    im a victim of kallery.net too :/ but i installed a widget of theirs that i found nice, its a simple image of a painting. i guess ill take it down now.heheh.

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    1. Mary Mainer24 February 2013 at 18:37

      :) Mission accomplished for Kallery.net-they must be very happy. I wonder whether you got to know about the widget by clicking on the referring url.

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  3. Catherine Ann12 March 2013 at 11:30

    Good to know! Thanks!

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  4. Unknown16 March 2013 at 12:14

    So, kallery is a spam link! Why google don't block this url? Thanks by the way.

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  5. neil31 March 2013 at 09:40

    I noticed it too - a visit moments after a post is published! Thanks for sharing.

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  6. Deepesh1 April 2013 at 04:40

    are you really sure kallery.net is a spam, I am also facing the same problem, i have a huge amount of traffic from kellery.net, also my blog is in hindi language so my mind is all messed up what the hell is going on, sir do you have any way to block this url from visiting my blog

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    1. Mary Mainer2 April 2013 at 21:00

      As far as I know, kallery.net is spam. I get views from them immediately I publish a new post-guess they visit the post even before it has been indexed! As for blocking them, I do not know if that is possible. Personally I have chosen to ignore them.

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  7. Anonymous2 April 2013 at 06:47

    I had luck to find this blog:) It seems like I'd better not care kallery.net too much.

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    1. Mary Mainer2 April 2013 at 21:01

      Just ignore them. I too have chosen to completely ignore them.

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  8. Unknown6 April 2013 at 01:34

    I have also been wondering for months as to what that was! I have been ignoring it the whole time until I did a "what is kallery.net" search and made it here. Glad Im not the only one wondering what the heck????

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  9. Unknown6 April 2013 at 02:11

    How about soalrasa.com and lepak.my, anybody heard of them?:(

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  10. Akemi Agura10 April 2013 at 01:51

    I have just recently enrolled my blog in Adsense and in effort to maintain readers (which I doubt I really do have, I checked the list of sites that viewed my blog. I have found kallery.net and domar.ru and I got redirected to this blog :) Thank you for that informative post :D Saved me from actually visiting the suspicious site

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  11. Anonymous11 April 2013 at 08:18

    I saw this in page viewers and did google search. I find your article. Lets see what is this site? Thanks for giving information in your site.

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  12. Michelle12 April 2013 at 18:39

    Hey I'm a victim of kallery, too. I also get spam from filmhill. After searching about it, I learned that you can report it and it *might* do something.
    The link to report it is here
    http://tecnoxps.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-much-spam-visit-your-blog-some.html

    There I was, thinking I have someone seriously following every single post. Ha.
    oh well.

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  13. RikaaLika18 April 2013 at 01:18

    i saw them at my blog as well..
    i don't dare to click their link..
    heck no..just bought my laptop n i don't wanna have my first virus ruin my laptop,,
    :)

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  14. A. Harper25 April 2013 at 21:28

    Thanks, I had them on my blog and it's mainly U.S. politics so didn't know what was up. But hey, this post is getting you blog hits!

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  15. Timm Carney30 April 2013 at 17:19

    I too have had them appear on my Blog (Damnit)as well FilmHill I found that they are spam and was given advise to ignore them and they will eventually stop appearing. i was getting 35 FilmHill a week and it is now down to almost none as well as Kalley.net. I was told to ignore them and they will no longer have interest in you if you don't click on them. My Blog is an arts and entertainment blog that gets lots of hits so they don't really affect my stats all that much.

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  16. rasyidsabil1 May 2013 at 01:24

    yeah, it seems that many blogs had been visited by the kallery.net, not only mine :)

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  17. Damian Granja5 May 2013 at 15:12

    Thanks for the information I decided to ignore them also.

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  18. Sadrak Kabir22 May 2013 at 15:33

    Google is in mine opinion using robots to fool 'statistics' : examining contents for their information system.
    Sometimes when you view visitors: it does not make sense or all visits are reset to Zero (0) and next day upgrade.
    Give you the opinion: people actually visit your blog.

    'Hits' How Idiiots Track Success.
    it's a nice joke: i check statistics like an alcoholic looking for a drink.

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    1. Unknown24 May 2013 at 04:49

      Me too. I also get fake views from vampirestat.com. :/ I'm getting sick of them, but I still try to ignore it.

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  19. Andreas31 May 2013 at 12:40

    My blog gets often visited by such strange sites. I think, most of these pages use some kind of robots to search all blogspot-blogs they can find. Clicking the links in the stats will confirm your "interest" and will make them return to your blog over and over again ;-) So, just ignore them all :-)

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  20. Rosemary Mortimer1 June 2013 at 15:31

    Kallery.net got me too!
    Also I seem to have quite a few hits when I am editing stuff and going back and forward to 'view blog'. Do you think my hits are all my own? How sad, lol.

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    1. sher23 July 2013 at 11:40

      yes those are yours. But there is a place where you can tell Google not to track your own page views. It requires knowing something about your service provider. I just use whatever wireless is available to me so it doesn't help me at all. :)

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    2. Georgina4 October 2013 at 13:21

      Under Stats click on "Don't Track Your Own Page Views" on every browser you use. That stops Google thinking you are a new visitor to your blog. It too get kallery and vampirestat. Very annoying but I think I get a few real people too, and that's a nice surprise.

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  21. Unknown1 June 2013 at 18:29

    Thanks for sharing. You are very informative. It happened to me as well.

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  22. Unknown14 June 2013 at 12:00

    Thank-you for writing this, it is helping me as a newcomer to blogspot.

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  23. Anonymous2 July 2013 at 02:42

    thanks for your information,it is help me too

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  24. Joey2 July 2013 at 06:50

    haha wow me too guys :DDD

    quaintlittlegirl

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  25. Unknown10 July 2013 at 06:45

    Same thing happened to me too. When I first published my very first blog I got so excited about the view stats, and I was like, "omg! omg! omg!" So I did a little Google search about my traffic sources, then suddenly I was like, "oh, okay..."

    Anyways... Keep on writing Mary, I'm pretty sure you'll get a lot of legit views. :D

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  26. minheem16 July 2013 at 02:25

    oh I see, kallery.net needs some attention I guess. I thought they displayed somebody's photo on their website - that's called "hotlinking" and is prohibited on internet.

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  27. sher23 July 2013 at 11:39

    kallery.net is new to me. But I have been getting some really decent views from google.co.kr- the Korean Google. The thing that used to worry me about all of it is the spam bots. However... typically those are coming from URL shortening sites like Twitter's bitly and the t.co sites.
    I did a search for kallery and they do seem a legit site. So now my next concern is why Koreans like my artwork. And are they going to right click and save and start printing my stuff without letting me know?

    But don't worry. A blog audience grows very slowly when you are not an A lister like Wil Wheaton. The best way to build a blog is to read other blogs and comment on the sites that you find the most compelling and interesting to you. I only have 17 confirmed readers and I just had my 5th year anniversary. And for every person who reads and comments there will be about 20 who never will. It goes with the territory.

    But to cut down on spam bots you need to upgrade your security and run the scans every week. Twice a week if you are super active online. I have not done that yet and I can not get rid of these guys. Am forever scratching my head as to why I am being such a dork.

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  28. Sachit Rajan1 August 2013 at 01:57

    Yes even I get lot of viewers. But not only from S Korea. I was concerned

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  29. M.A.G15 August 2013 at 07:38

    Wow, thank you everyone. Me too, was wondering about kallery.net

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  30. fwickafwee17 August 2013 at 21:20

    Yes, thanks to the author of this article, and thanks to all of the commenters. I was confused by the Kallery.net thing too, and I couldn't believe that many people were visiting my blog!

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  31. b. rahi koh26 August 2013 at 13:31

    I also got irritated by this kallery.net thing. I checked on their site but it seems to me that its legit. I even signed up to their site & play games on it too.

    Probably one of their marketing tactics i think designed for bloggers like us. Btw, i've got visited by them everyday!

    Just recently, I also noticed similar activities from vampirestat, adsensewatchdog, and some other unfamiliar russian & europian sites.

    If you have time - kindly visit my blog at http://bisdakblogger.blogspot.com/2013/08/flower-beach-diving-resort-anda-bohol.html

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    1. SilverPixieFly30 August 2013 at 10:54

      Don't make a habit of clicking those links. Sometimes they have viruses. Other times you are rewarding their spam efforts. I know Vampirestat is one that spams you so you will click their link and they get the hits.

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  32. SilverPixieFly30 August 2013 at 10:52

    I make it a rule never to click links I don't recognize in my traffic source. I Google them for verification, which is how I found you. Thank you for the heads up that it is spam.

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  33. BGB5 September 2013 at 10:35

    Yeah, I didn't bother going there without checking to see what whoever else had to say about it. I guess I won't go there after all. I saw them show up in my referring sites and was hopeful it was something connected to my subject matter and found your site. Oh well. I'm also getting a lot of traffic from vampirestat which I guess is a massive "click-back" scam and I never bothered to go there either. It stinks, doesn't it? :(

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  34. b. rahi koh5 September 2013 at 11:55

    @Pixie: Thanks for your inputs. I guess I must have to stop clicking on it for actual verification.

    @RGB: Yeah, like Vampires - vampirestat really sucks!

    Please drop-by to my site if you have time. Thanks!

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  35. Dirty Little Feet8 September 2013 at 07:30

    Bloggers helping bloggers. NICE! And thank you.

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  36. Unknown23 September 2013 at 22:08

    Oh, so my posts are really not that great! I was getting happier thinking I had readers from S Korea interested in my blog, now it seems its only a Spam.

    Thanks for the article though, you are sure getting many hits!

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  37. Ciaran Goggins8 October 2013 at 09:47

    Here was me thinking I was popular in Korea!

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  38. Anonymous9 October 2013 at 02:49

    You can disavow malicious spam links that adversely affect your position in Google (links from porno sites and other sites that have nothing to do with the subject of your blog). To find out how, Google for the PDF explaining the Google Link Disavow Tool from Dejan SEO in Australia.

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  39. Ann Gat Cap13 October 2013 at 13:22

    Haha! kallery.net worked to your advantage! My annoyance and curiousity led me to this. Now you know that you actually have real live audience. Good job kallery! ;)

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  40. Stephen Bass18 October 2013 at 08:38

    Hello Readers,

    My Google Blog, Three Taps for Olga, is about elder abuse and how my elderly mother Olga and I lost our family home because of a criminal home health aid and her attorney. The 100 page blog is about elder abuse. Given that I cannot understand why Kallery showed up today for the first time on my Google stats. Kallery has nothing to do with elder abuse.

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  41. Malyn19 October 2013 at 02:07

    Kallery's giving you an advantage. I am a starter and wonder why I get many hits, I was amazed and excited with these sites that gives traffic to mine that fast and so I clicked them even before I researched them. My curiosity about it led me here. I get the most hits from vampirestat.com, also from 7secretsearch.com and adsensewatchdog.com.

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  42. Unknown25 October 2013 at 01:40

    Thanks for this article, one year later, it still made things clearer for me!

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  43. Unknown26 October 2013 at 17:55

    Thank you, for the helpful information. I also Google kallery and came to your site. :)

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  44. littleshell29 October 2013 at 10:29

    well~
    kallery do brings traffic to you blog~ ; D

    littleshell-multimedia.blogspot.com

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  45. Crazy_Roth19 November 2013 at 18:47

    Hey, if you ever are discussing slavery in the cocoa industry, let me know! You'll get free advertising on my blog, , and I'll have another site to mention!

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  46. A Zionista21 November 2013 at 18:59

    Also here because kallery.net :]

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  47. Elizabeth Anderson23 November 2013 at 07:41

    I just got a kallery hit for the first time :( I also get vampire 18 or more times a day :( :(
    and oh there's 7secretssearch as well :P

    I really would like blogger to work on blocking them

    But I am not a robot visitor. I'm real :)

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  48. bequi16 December 2013 at 14:10

    thanks for the info (and the warning) as mentioned before is not the only one, I get "hits" from a few of those, don't click back, one even shuttered down my pc (some malware perhaps?)

    I guess there are after the money (if any). best thing is to block then with your own router filter

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  49. Gerbera17 December 2013 at 11:39

    I am also here because of kallery.net

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  50. T17 December 2013 at 20:39

    Damn you kallery.net , and to think all of those veiws were from people interested in my dry sense of humour and skills at being a new dad

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  51. Marthyx7 January 2014 at 14:38

    this should be called, united by kallery - the post xD

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  52. amiah17 January 2014 at 20:15

    thank you for this info! I also was afraid of what kallery was. And because of kallery, i was able to find this blog!

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