On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Patricia Geary <patgeary@comcast.net>wrote: > > Perhaps someone is doing some housecleaning at HostGator. > > pat They better be LOL; I know I've made a big fuss at them this past week. Judy

Judy, It doesn't need a Bot per se to grab links to your pages. As Ron Lankshear mentioned earlier, there are many legit methods of doing that. For instance I used a program I have here to check all the valid links in your "religions" community and have links to 340 pages on that site, and on top of that there are external links. It may well be that the size of your site and the subject matter make it a target. Even if the host of the site targeting your pages manages to close the site down, the culprits, armed with all the data they have already acquired will quickly set up elsewhere. There is no simple solution. Barry