How do I stop this, if possible?

You have an unexplained traffic source, but it does your site no harm. I would suggest ignoring it.

Visitors aren't automatically spam because they come from a different country to you. It could be you blogged about something people in Russia are searching for right now. But it doesn't really matter and isn't worth worrying over.

The stats from Blogger are consistently wacky. I signed up for StatCounter, which I'm inclined to trust a little better. Sometimes, their "visitor country" listings don't match up, even. It's very strange.

I get visitors from all over the world, probably someone, possibly a spammer, possibly not, liked what he read on your blog and used the Russian equivalent of facebook to let a few other people know.
Be happy and just make sure you don't get spam comments.

One day I posted a preview to something I had written and it was crazy popular with some Brazilian blog and people there were reading it. I have no clue what they were saying but the downloads were from there and I was thankful for the traffic.

My webcomic usually gets about 200 hits on posting days. One day it was 2000. Apparently my "stumbleupon" link for that comic was popular that day.

You can't control your hits. Just keep blogging and hope that over time the general count creeps higher.

This probably goes without saying, but just in case: make sure you don't click on any of the links given when you are reviewing your stats. I've had the same problem lately. My views have more than doubled, and though I've always had views from other countries, the number of views from Russia has doubled the number from the US. And one link keeps showing up. Our of curiosity, I googled about it and found out that if a person were to click on it, the computer would be infected with a virus. I also read that it should stop eventually as long as the link isn't clicked on. Hope that helps.

Yeah, I'm getting a recent burst of Russian hits, too. Doing some searches on the "Referring Sites" URLs is informative -- they are spammer sites, nothing more. They're also generally nothing to worry about, I think. Google will eliminate them in time.

De-linking the domains here to avoid fueling the spambots: my non-reader traffic lately comes from two places


I wouldn't click on either one without wearing a mask and gloves and having a big can of DIE SPAMMER DIE on hand.

I had a spate of Russian visitors when I first opened my blog up to public traffic. According to Blogger Help, it's referrer spam. As everyone has said, don't click on the weird links you see. I've also had hits from other random countries with zero time on my page, according to Google Analytics. I trust Analytics more than Blogger Stats on its own.