Someone redirected their domain name to mine!

**Lady T** · December 2nd, 2009

I was just checking my stats and saw that I was visited by a website w/a cool name referring to coaching moms.

So I typed that cool name into the browser and MY WEBSITE CAME UP!

What does that mean and why are they doing that?

I also noticed that my site was "entered" & "exited" by

wp-admin/index-extra.php
wp-admin/ajax.php
wp-admin/load-scripts.php
wp-admin/widgets.php
wp-admin/load-styles.php
ETC.

I haven't yet learned how to read my stats (another thing to learn on my list) but is there something fishy about that? Is that me or someones else? Is this related?

**Kayla Fay** · December 2nd, 2009

People do that to me and insert their affiliate link. No idea why they would do it to a site without affiliate programs.

**Lynn Terry** · December 2nd, 2009

I'm not sure on that either. We could move this to the main public forum and see if we can get some help on it if you like?

**Lady T** · December 2nd, 2009

Yes, let's move it.

billdotd · December 2nd, 2009

People do that to me and insert their affiliate link. No idea why they would do it to a site without affiliate programs.

How would they get an affiliate link to your site when you don't have a program? Weird...

**MaryB2010** · December 2nd, 2009

I also noticed that my site was "entered" & "exited" by

wp-admin/index-extra.php
wp-admin/ajax.php
wp-admin/load-scripts.php
wp-admin/widgets.php
wp-admin/load-styles.php
ETC.

This may be a stupid question by someone who hasn't a clue, but if your site was entered and exited by wp-admin doesn't that mean that they hacked your site?

**CameraShy** · December 3rd, 2009

Oh Teisha - I have no idea why this is happening I just wanted say Ugh! It is very curious....

I think
wp-admin/index-extra.php
wp-admin/ajax.php
wp-admin/load-scripts.php
wp-admin/widgets.php
wp-admin/load-styles.php

is just you access your domain via wordpress though?

**TheWealthSquad** · December 4th, 2009

Lady T

Create a new user in the wordpress admin part of your blog. Make it an admin level. Once you have proven it works, go in and delete the admin account. You now log into your blog using the new account rather than admin.

Since hackers know admin is the default account, they use it to try to break passwords. You can also use plugins like Login Lockdown to limit the number of tries someone can make before locking the account down.

**drmani** · December 4th, 2009

You live, and you learn. I've been around the block a couple of times, and
still this thread has been an eye-opener!

...they may have linked to your site with their cookie stuffing link for aweber

This one I knew about.

They can also be testing an adwords campaign. To get an initial high quality score you select a site that is already optimzied toward the keywords you are setting up a campaign for.

This one I didn't!

And it is also possible they are trying to sell a site they don't own too.

Or this one!

Wow.

Dr.Mani