All the fun of IP Addresses
I was interested to see the other day that CCP appear to have now introduced a function under your viewing history, whereby the IP addresses of the unregistered users who look at your profile are listed. Having done a quick search trawl through a recent few of mine, I think it is safe to say, in final conclusion, that the vast majority of these frequently mysterious searches are clearly coming from automated bots that operate from accounts placed all over the globe. On the one hand, this seems to take a degree of mystery out of the game as to who may possibly be finding and analysing your profile; on the other hand, it is quite amusing to think that search engines from Palo Alto to Norkopping are dialling up the details of your CCP profile for no particular reason. I'll think on this the next time one of those anomalous searches for 'hairy bear man naked' etc. turns up in my results!
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Hi Lee...
IP Addresses CAN be very useful, especially if you have your own website, your own stats package and you have added the link to a CD's or director's email.
You can second guess that IF there is a sudden peak of IP address, showing that your essential pages have been perused then that person may well have looked through your details.
The more you categorize your website, such as V/O work, Corporate, etc., the more you can determine what your prospective employer has looked at...OR NOT...lol!
I had to alter a title of one of my web pages recently as I weas for ever getting Thai students Googling "Book Preface", which brought them to my own "book preface" V/O page!
Best wishes.
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I keep getting searches from bots - looking for "nude pics" LOL - I think I can hear the screaming from here.
WML!!
Why would someone programme a bot to search out our showreels?! (I'm not at all up with tech speak, but I don't think a 'bot' is something likely to employ us at any point!)
OK, this has got me all confused now...
This was the info under 'unregistered user' - IP: 86.151.127.244
Profile found via www.google.co.uk/search
search terms: peter halpin
When I googled that IP address it doesn't appear to be a real person!? How/why has 'something' been able to search for my name on google, then click the link to CCP?! I'm utterly bemused...!
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ok I'm confused.....can someone explain the IP address thing? It's the location of the computers server right? And how can you look up how they found you using the IP address? I am SO not techy! :D
In simple terms every piece of equipment on the internet has an IP address that uniquely identifies it. By reverse tracing the IP address you can positively identify the exact computer or in some cases "robot" that looked at your profile here on CCP!
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I seeeee! Thanks ForbesKB! Right im off to reverse IP all the ones I have. :D
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oh how do i look up this info?
To be perfectly honest to reverse IP is a waste of time and effort from what I've heard, unless you're being stalked. In which case it's a necessity!
Best to all and hope no ones being stalked! ;-)
Sophia - use this: http://psacake.com/web/eg.asp
Scrap that. This one maybe? http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/
The vast majority of these "robots" are the indexing servers that make sure you appear in search engine results, which are frequently checking back to see if the content of the site has been updated, so don't panic.
If you're *really* interested in finding out where people are located, you can use a website such as http://www.hostip.info/ to look up an IP and see where the person is browsing from. It's not necessarily accurate, though, as IP's usually only trace back on this type of lookup as far as the person's host internet provider's local server rather than revealing the person's physical location. It will usually give a general idea where the person looked you up from at least.
Where a map doesn't appear, the IP isn't "geolocated", in other words, the host or individual hasn't registered a location against that IP address. That's also normal and nothing to worry about.
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Using a combination of hostip.info, google earth to identify the exact building and Streetview to read the sign on the door, I've just geolocated one of the IP address hits to a Suffolk Council run Youth Club in Lowestoft!
This could turn into an obsession! :-/
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Don't take the IP addresses off - they are especially useful for identifying "repeat views" from a particular account even if the actual location/user is hidden.
Great, Chris! Now we can all get 'view inadequacy' to add all our other actor neuroses! :-P
170?! Wow, I think getting 10 is a lot!! What are other people's averages?
I have been doing IP "WHOIS" searches on the odd ip.
But it doesn't really tell me anything about who the person is.
What I tend to get back is a server of some sort, and the only confirmation being the country and internet provider they use.
It's not telling me MR Jackson from Taiwan was viewing you at 15:00, etc etc.
I do notice I get a lot of views from China and the like. So, unless I've got some imperial fan-base I'm unaware of, I'll take it as a bot patrol.
...In a parallel world I'm 'Charli Delane'whose a glamour model 'down under'! I get some interesting clicks from time to time!!!
As they say...'All publicity is good...blah! blah!
"POLE"
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