how to make sense of web stats, and sites that link to my site

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From: stan_alachniewicz
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:49

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Hello,

I've been reviewing web stats for my site and have come across some interesting findings.

Firstly, I'm wondering if page requests are from robots or people??? I can sort of tell by the stats, but I'm wondering what percentage of hits come from bots.... is there a general rule about that? a general number?

Also, looking at sites that are supposedly linking to mine, I found two porn sites, a nederland search engine, and other wierd ones. what gives? Why are these sites linking to mine and how did they find me?

Thanks in advance,
Stan

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