Referrer Traffic from Amazon – WTF?!

As it happens, I have been know to look at my blog stats from time (!), and today I noticed something odd in the referrer stats:

A referral from Amazon. WTF?

The link goes to a book detail page for a book about Wikipedia:

Scrolling down a bit, I found this:

A blog post syndicated in the product page from one of the book’s authors that linked to my post on Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets.

My immediate thought – is there any way we can blog info about courses that use set textbooks back into the related Amazon product page?

Author: Tony Hirst

I'm a Senior Lecturer at The Open University, with an interest in #opendata policy and practice, as well as general web tinkering...

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