> are hits from this group of sites not legitimate hits? I mean if it's not bot traffic It is bot traffic. These aren't real visits. These sites don't actually

> are hits from this group of sites not legitimate hits? I mean if it's not bot traffic It is bot traffic. These aren't real visits. These sites don't actually link to anyone, they just run crawlers visiting other sites with their domain as the referrer in order to get traffic from webmasters. They sell SEO and SEO monitoring services mainly, so people looking at their web stats are their market.