China Bots

Did you look up the IP address? It is visible if you hover over the visitor location from the image's page.

I did a google search.... do you have your print listed at this link https://tauruszodiacworldwidefanclub.wordpress.com/%E2%99%89-worldwide-art-gallery-about-taurus/toro-taurus-bull-painting-toro-taurus-bull-fine-art-print-2/

or this one http://stargazer.xanaland.com/2013/05/june-horoscope-for-taurus.html
http://imgbucket.com/pages/t/taurus-artwork/

Good to do a search now and then when you see a lot of hits like that. None of these have removed the watermark, but.. when clicked on it doesn't take you back to FAA.. so it would seem to me it has been hijacked.

Strange. No idea! Be nice if the Chinese bot brought it. Maybe its a Chinese artist and he is painting your picture from the screen of his computer!? And he keeps refreshing the page. Wish someone would visit my page 3000 times even if its only a Chinese bot :-)

When I click from here, it shows 3700+.... when I click from your site, it shows 70+. Perplexing!!!

My guess is that there is a link to the image on a blog or social media. The location may be the location of the server for the web site where the link is posted.

As for the hijacking, that does not explain the link. A link is not likely to show up in an image search.

Thank you for all of your answers and the links, Sharon!
I am a Taurus myself, haha...

The locations are

Guangzhou, China
Hefei, China

Small world, I guess...

Wow. That's a lotta bull.

One of mine keeps getting hit by Vietnam. Not sure why it chooses that one over and over. Not even a good photo technically, nor is it an interesting subject. Go figure.

The IP address is a number that you can then use to find the user. When you hover over the location, numbers should appear. With those numbers you can do a Google search to learn more.

time for this post again for people who have not yet seen it...............

Romeo
China
Guangzhou
and several others not mentioned here are search bots. We NEED them

Why do we need bots…. and why should you allow them some access to your site

A search engine is a site that allows people to put in a search term and find a site for what they are looking for.

A bot, or web crawler, is the little programme (think of a little robot made up of 0s and 1s) who runs around around the web with a thousand mates, checking out all the sites by following links. One link leads to another 5 links and those 5 links lead to another 10 links etc etc. The bots all scurry around and report back to the big programme, the search engine, what they find on the pages the links lead to.

The search engine waits, all knowing and, when someone then comes along and asks for FISH, the search engine smiles to itself and, patting a bot on the head that brought back the FISH descriptions, tells the person all the sites that are talking about fish.

That’s a bot.

Is this ment as an answer to the question why bots visit the same image 1500 + 1500 = 3000 times during two month?

Yes, Lutz...bots are a good thing! Congrats on so many bots to your image.

Your are missing the point, I am afraid, Lisa.
It is not many bots to my image, it is just two of them.

There's no sensible reason for the same bot to visit an unchanging page thousands of times. We're probably just seeing inefficiencies or outright bugs in the bots' code. It means nothing.

Look for your image to appear on the web. You may be able to buy it cheap!

do not be afraid...keep hands and feet in ride at all times. those are all dare i say artsy " politically" correct answers :) random thoughts ... a bot indexing information does not need to cycle 4 5 6 times a day but neither does someone stealing images !!!

Thank you all for your answers.

I just wanted to bring this up to my fellow artists attention - and asking for possible explanations, cose I could not see the meaning of it.

I can live with it, I can also live with people using my images in their forums without asking first - I would allow it anyway...

I gave you the most likely cause. People are clicking on an image link on a social media or blog. A search bot does not return over and over. You won't find the image in a reverse image search because a reverse image search does not return links. Like I said you could learn more by looking at the IP number that appears when you hover over the the location from your image page. Do not assume that the viewer is in those cities. They could be anywhere. It's just the listed server location of whatever site is hosting the image. And a lot of what is called bots here is really just multiple views that are linked through the same server. And clues to what that site can be found by looking up the listed address of the IP owner, which often is not even the location that FAA lists.

For example my most viewed image has 23,0000 views from all over the world. But it is often visited from a specific IP address in High Wycomb, England.The address is 81.156.126.254. I put the number into Google and found it on a website called IPlocationtools.com But there are many other sites to use. I found out the IP address is for a broadband internet company BT.com located in London. It is a cable company that provides internet service. So what is happening is that viewers in the UK are looking at the image. The location I see on FAA is the location of the server for the broadband company, not the location of the actual viewer. There is likely a link posted somewhere on a blog or social media. Actually many links as it is a very popular image and may have been shared and reposted many times. But when the visitors use that internet service I see High Wycomb as the visitor location

Another popular server location is in Beverly Hills, which is the location of the servers for several internet service providers including Verizon wireless.

As people use wireless servers more and more expect the locations given on FAA to be the locations of their wireless service provider's servers. If all the visits are from only one place, that is likely the server location of a social media compny like Reddit or Pinterest, where a link to the image has been placed.

Good to know, Bradford, thank you!

In China they like my image of bull/taurus more than elsewhere...

BEST explanation yet Bradford... Thank you!

Bradford is correct, they are not bots everyone keeps talking about, most are views, I have been saying this a few times before, it is the way social media posts show on our visit count.

One more time not bots, actual views.