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Why do pages from other sites show up under my account?
On the top left hand side of your site information is your Site ID. This ID is what identifies your site as yours. When you generate you code tags for a normal site, your site id will appear in the code tags where the ##### is.

<!-- BEGIN WebSTAT Activation Code -->
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://hv3.webstat.com/cgi-bin/wsv2.cgi?#####"></script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://www.webstat.com">
<img src="http://hv3.webstat.com/scripts/wsb.php?ac=#####" border="0" alt="Site Statistics and Hit Counter by WebSTAT"></a>
</noscript>
<!-- END WebSTAT Activation Code -->

Whenever this segment of code is run, the computer that runs your code sends a message to our server that that particular page has been viewed under that particular id number (#####), along with some identifying information about that computer. The problem arises when the code that identifies your account is not on your domain. There are a couple reasons why this might be.

You might have more than one account
If you have more than one account, and web pages from one account are showing up under another account, make sure you have the right code tags on the right website. If you put the code tags from one account on a page from another account, that page will show up in the wrong account. To fix that problem, replace the code tags from the wrong account with those with right account. To do that, follow these steps:

1. Log into the correct account
2. Click on the “Generate My Code Tags” button
3. Copy the generated code tags.
4. Delete the old code tags
5. Paste in the new code tags.
6. Save the changes and upload it to your server.

Your page might have been copied and uploaded to another domain.
If someone copies your page and puts it on their domain, and then that page is viewed on their domain, it will notify you of a visit. By copying the page, they also copy our code tags. These code tags are then run every time the page is viewed. The code tags then send a message to our servers and report a page view on the other domain.

This actually isn’t as uncommon as you might think. For example, Google frequently copies web pages and stores them for easier access later. When people find your webpage through Google, they have the option of viewing your page cached on Google’s servers. If they do this, that page view will show up as a page view from Google, with numbers for the domain.

Your site might have been hijaked
It isn't too hard for someone to go to your website and copy all of your hard work and effort and put it on their own site. While copying your content, they might have also copied your code tags. Since your code tags are on their site, your code tags are also tracking their site. If you feel you might be a victim of hijaking, let us know and we let you know your next course of action.




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